Message-ID: <1060021223.3f2ea3e7b6e9f@cubmail.cc.columbia.edu> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:20:23 -0400 From: cba2101@columbia.edu To: daviss@columbia.edu Subject: Royal Pages Scanning Project File Lists Stephen, Attached are the lists of files from the Royal Pages scanning project. The (6) cds have been given to Tanya. I was asking myself the question of whether or not it was better to produce lists from the cds or from the hard drive, when I found a message that you sent- which I had missed. Fortunately, I had already made lists from the cds- except for the first. What is attached here is a fabrication of the list for disc one based on the information from the file list on the hard drive. A couple dates will be wrong, but that should be about it. A note on folder 3J: You will notice that there are oddly named files, 3j.alt.tif, 3j.alt2.tif, as well as one regularly named file, 3j001.tif. The alternate scans were made because we could not decide on where best to place the color bar- the object was at the limit of the scanning area, so the color bar had to be sandwiched between the object and the glass. In the first scan (3j001.tif) this caused some darkening along the edge (the thickness of the color bar lifting the object slightly off the glass). The first alternate file has no color bar, and in the second, the color bar was placed into the image area as unobtrusively as possible- on the side of the shorter dimension- reducing its effect. Folder 4N: The third file, 4n003.tif, is a digital composite representing the piece as it was presented (as it exists). –It was sturdy enough to go on the scanner, but also too large. –The composite is not totally seamless, as you will see- but, I imagine it should do- if not exactly for documentary purposes, at least for representational ones… Folder 3O: The program book scanned here was too fragile for me to want to have to manipulate it onto a flatbed scanner. Instead, I used our Phaseone digital camera. Because the scanner is reading from the focal plane of the camera, it has no idea of the size of the actual object it is reproducing. I used a custom sizing option within the program- to tell the computer that the ruler was 8 inches- and it worked out the size of the image based on that. The image was scanned at 300 dpi –relative to these inches (my estimate). I made sure for this that I was well within the range of real-pixel resolution- so there should be no interpolation. Folders 2N, 3H, 3I, 3R, 5B: These images were produced by scanning, with our Phaseone, 4x5 transparencies shot here from the original objects. This was done because the pieces were too large and / or too fragile. With the exception of the parasol / pillow images, these items were all scanned at 300 dpi, on the highest resolution setting the camera allows, thus, the inches of the object correspond to the maximum size we could get without interpolating, and not to the size of the actual objects (they were simply too large). The parasol and pillow images (folder 3R), being more akin to product photographs, were left at (roughly) the size of the transparencies, but scanned at 1200 dpi- again, corresponding to the maximum real resolution possible with that camera. -It occurs to me that I never asked exactly what details were needed- I don’t know what’s done with these lists, if they’re merged into a data-base, or what. Please let me know- at least for future projects, such as Urban (what details to include)- and also what to do about the Urban cds that already exist. -Chris Antkowiak (Reprography) x3529 Attachment Converted: "C:\data\mail\attach\Royal Pages Disc 1.txt" Attachment Converted: "C:\data\mail\attach\Royal Pages Disc 2.txt" Attachment Converted: "C:\data\mail\attach\Royal Pages Disc 3.txt" Attachment Converted: "C:\data\mail\attach\Royal Pages Disc 4.txt" Attachment Converted: "C:\data\mail\attach\Royal Pages Disc 5.txt" Attachment Converted: "C:\data\mail\attach\Royal Pages Disc 6.txt"