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I'm about to scan ~ 3000 film negatives that have been in my parents house and would like to do it right the first time. Basically I'm trying to find the right balance between file size and quality. Any advice on dpi, file format, etc?
I've done some test scans and a .jpg at 9600 dpi is ~ 18 mb while a .tif at 9600 dpi is ~ 300 mb. Is a .tif really worth the nearly 20x storage space? Keep in mind I'll also have .psd files for each scan so double that.
A .tif at 4800 dpi is more reasonable at ~70 mb.
The attached pic is one of the test scans at 4800 dpi before any levels or color adjustments. I've cropped it to get it under the 5 mb limit but it should be indicative of what most of the negatives look like when scanned
