File Type Help for Digitizing Slides, Negatives & Pictures

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JPEG and TIFF are both industry standard file formats and readable on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux systems.

TIFF files are extremely large when compared to JPEG files and therefore require significantly more CD's / DVD's to hold the images. Before ordering TIFF format, make sure that your computer can handle these large files. The JPEG format is the most common and uses a technology that compresses the image size to save on disc space. The downside to JPEG files is that repeated editing and saving will reduce the image quality. We use minimal compression and the highest quality setting on all JPEG images. It is virtually impossible for all but a professional expert to see a significant difference between a TIFF image and our JPEG images.

35mm Slide & Negative Chart
Scanning Resolution Size in Pixels File Size JPEG (approx) File Size TIFF (approx) Print size at 240 dpi Images per CD JPEG Images per CD TIFF Images per DVD JPEG Images per DVD TIFF
2000 dpi (4.6 MP) 1740x2660 3 MB 14 MB 8x11 175 46 1500 321
3000 dpi (9.2 MP) 2625x3900 6.7 MB 31 MB 11x17 72 21 673 145
4000 dpi (18.5 MP) 3500x5200 12 MB 54 MB 15x22 43 12 375 83
35mm & Super 35mm film format

35mm & Super 35mm

35mm x 23mm (1 3/8" x 15/16")
35mm x 28mm (1 3/8" x 1 1/8")
110 film format

110

17mm × 13mm (11/16" x 1/2")
126 film format

126

28mm x 28mm (1 1/16" x 1 1/16")
127 $127 Superslide film format

127 & 127 Superslide

30mm x 30mm (1 3/16" x 1 3/16")
38mm x 38mm (1 1/2" x 1 1/2")