>> > In another message, you mention having a "couple of km" of 8mm 
>> > film.
>> > Let's do "back of the envelope" math.  2kM is 2,000M is 
>> > 2,000,000mm
>> > of film.  If each frame is 6mm tall, you are looking at 1/3 
>> > million
>> > images.  If each image is 3MB (1200x900 pixels at 8 bits/pixel 
>> > with
>> > 3 color channels, stored as TIFF), then you are looking at 1 
>> > terrabyte
>> > of storage for this project.  That's a couple 750MB disk drives 
>> > or
>> > 250 full single layer DVDs.  And way over 300,000 image files.
>> >
>> > It may be pedestrian, but I think you may be underestimating the
>> > raw effort needed to manage that many images or that much 
>> > storage.
>> > And I doubt most video editing programs would do well with it, 
>> > even
>> > if it were broken up into multiple projects (one per 8mm film 
>> > reel).

You don't need anywhere that much storage for good results at modest 
image size.
1 MB will store a 6 MP (3000 x 2000) image in jpg at a quality that 
few would complain about.

FWIW I have well over 1 TB of image storage here (with duplicates) and 
N x 100,000 jpg images where N >= excessive.
Some day soon I hope to rationalise things a bit so I only have 2 of 
most things. Picassa gets a bit unhappy with that many images but 
other means work well enough.



        Russell





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