Ginger M. Young wrote:

We were wondering if there is actually heat produced from the
>scanner itself and what sort of light is involved since photographs are very
>light sensitive due to the chemical nature of the photos themselves.
>
>Using a digital camera has been mentioned.  We do not have one at this time
>so I am wanting any info ya'll have on the effects a digital camera may have
>on photographs as well.
>

This sounds like a perfect opportunity to carry out a duplicating program
at the same time.

Their are so many problems with long term preservation and reuse of digital
images that having an archive quality negative of every historic photograph
might help solve. If you are going to the trouble of image capture for a
cataloguing project, why not take the extra step of photographic copying at
the same time. Then you have the choice of scanning the negatives, making
new prints (as the set for using and so reduce damage to the historic
prints) and then scanning the copy prints. - or taking a digital camera
image at the same time.

The photographic archive project at the Museum of Victoria, has been doing
this sort of thing for many years and the technology which uses combined PC
based database programing and laser disc digital imaging, is being used in
several other institutions.

see for example:

Museum of Victoria <http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/Scitech/pap.html>

State Library of Victoria
<http://slv950.slv.vic.gov.au/webpac-bin/wgbroker?07231215451901+-access+top
.image#what>


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Gary Vines, Industrial Archaeologist/Curator
Melbourne's Living Museum of the West Inc.
P.O. Box 60 Highpoint City, Victoria, Australia, 3032.
Telephone (613) 9318 3544 Fax  (613) 9318 1039
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http://www.livingmuseum.org.au

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