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Re: Need anything scanned ??

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Need anything scanned ??
From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 00:33:24 +1100
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Reply-To: trainman@ozemail.com.au

Yuri Sos/Melbourne wrote:

> kingpin@magna.com.au (Derek Woodlands) wrote:
>
> >Convert them to Jpeg and you can fit thousands on a CD!  ;-)
>
> But isn't JPEG "lossy" compression?  I would rather archive .TIFF onto
> a CD-ROM and have a loss-free master image with which to work.  Also
> "thousands" of images on a CD is an archiving/retrieval headache (much
> like 2-3 films on a single videotape) account sheer numbers.

At low compression, I doubt that anyone would be able to tell the difference.

--
David Johnson
CityRail Guard
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/

References:
- Need anything scanned ??
  - From: "Toolman" <rholmes@standard.net.au>
- Re: Need anything scanned ??
  - From: kingpin@magna.com.au (Derek Woodlands)
- Re: Need anything scanned ??
  - From: steam4me@enternet.com.au (Yuri Sos/Melbourne)

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