Would be interesting to know what formats are you using in your scanning or
photographing works.
The fact is that each format has his owns caracteristics, volume, etc. We are
always interesting in
the best quality but, for example, with my hardware a single scanned image with
top quality has occupyed
about 90 M memory on the disk (GIF), wich is amazing and completly out of
question. A medium quality is
about 20 Megas. As everybody knows, JPG is excelent for ecran viewing and has
high compression levels. Aparently is
not so good for printing. BMP is very memory consuming, etc, etc, etc...
Indeed, for us in museums, were such work is very time-consuming and we talk at
least on thousands of
images, is very important to take the right decision.

Thanks for commenting

Emanuel