In article <[log in to unmask]>, Tim Talbott <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Help! > >My institution is considering switching to digital photography for >collections records, but we're having trouble finding out how much disk >space a scanned image will require. We cannot deal with the one image >per one 3.5" floppy disk that one saleman told me (10,000 disks for >10,000 items? Surely not?). [ snip ] >If we purchase a CD write drive, is there an approximate number of images >we might hope to store per CD? You might look into Kodak's Photo-CD, they also have a method so that images can be on the web and users can zoom in to look at details. A link to them can be found in my Photography Resource list, just follow: http://www.oz.net/1world/skylight.html Reading some of the comp.* groups that focus on CD-ROM's could be quite helpful too. The state of the art in library science for instance, has many knowledgable ppl reading/posting there. Folks who run CD-ROM servers that use up to 100 discs and such. Good luck, Don Smith www.oz.net/1world/index.html