Do You Need TIFF File Format?

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We scan at 4000 ppi and to .JPG format.

We could do TIF but that would mean working with an image that is probably 5 times larger and that would slow our whole process down to a standstill and we would have to charge 5 times as much.

We are still only charging what we did back in 2004, if you can imagine that.

Professionals that have professional slides for advertising need TIF format. Maybe. They should also have "drum scanning" at $30 to $60 or more per slide. I would say that people with "family" slides, would be completely wasting their money if they had to pay extra to get TIF format. If they do not get charged extra, then their scanning company is also a "Scamming" company and the .JPG images were simply converted to TIF. You can do that yourself.

A TIF format image of an out of focus and discolored slide is still out of focus and discolored. It doesn't matter if you have millions of extra pixels or TIF format.

We seldom see an "in focus" slide. It is either because the person taking the picture did not know what they were doing or they had a cheap lens or the dyes on the slides tend to kind of blur and get "soft" as they fade. I have not been able to prove this last theory since I don't know if the slides were ever in focus. I think that if the dyes fade then maybe they get blurry all on their own as well.

I just finished scanning over 300 slides. There were a couple in there that were close to in focus and I had to wonder how that happened and it must have been by accident or a couple of slides from another family member must have been slipped into the project.

There is no way in the world that this customer would have been happier if they had gotten TIF format rather than JPG. JPG images have to be the most common file format in the world, I would think. Lots of people might not even to be able to open a TIF image.

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