Digital Images
Although I generally understood the section on digitizing images, I am unclear about the TIFF, JPEG, and GIF formats in relation to digital cameras. Does one have to have a special digital camera or scanner to get a TIFF format? I highly doubt that my canon powershot can take things at a high enough resolution to meet Library of Congress standards. How defined do pictures on a website need to be if they will only be viewed over a small area?
February 7th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Actually…with digital camera’s I think that the standard is usually jpg or gif but you can use a powerful image softwhere like Adobe Photoshop to shift from one format to another.
I don’t think your Canon Powershot could take as high res as the LOC requires, but there are camera’s out there that take pretty nice images that are still good. That being said, the issuse might also be what scanner one uses–which usually also gives you the option of what format you wat your images in.
Interseting note though. Someone told me a good archive/research tool is a digital camera. If you take in one w/o the flash that has a pretty good power you can take snaps of documents instead of having to get them copied. then you can easily go back and look at them w/o traveling back to the archives if you ahve a quesiton.
:)