Re: [MCN-L] Digitizing Photographs

many thousands of old BW prints this way. Personally, I find the results from a flatbed visually superior to the results from high-end photography, with the added benefit of no skew or fisheye.. Frank Kennedy, IT Manager Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd., PO BOX 308 Stockbridge, MA 01262

Re: [MCN-L] Adobe Creative Suite licensing

Hi Jenn TechSoup has Acrobat back again! :) :) :) Frank Kennedy, IT Manager Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd., PO BOX 308 Stockbridge, MA 01262 413-931-2216, fax 413-931-2316 http://www.nrm.org -- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:02:17 -0500 From

[MCN-L] What ticketing?

I'm sure this is answered somewhere, but... Given: Ticketmaster Vista is being discontinued, so we have to switch to some other software. What admissions ticketing software package do you use? Would you recommend it? Thanks! Frank Kennedy, IT Manager Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd., PO

[MCN-L] Color to Grayscale

In my experience with a large archives colletion, it *does* make a difference. Greyscale is typically 256 shades of grey. Basic color at 8 bits per channel is almost 17 million shades. Where this becomes apparent is in wide areas of gradation, like a photo with the sky showing, or an expanse of

[MCN-L] NAS HDD

was funded by several collection digitization grants which included a budget line for server hardware. I also prefer DAS because I can expand the arrays when needed. I use (2) Dell MD1220 chassis with 24 SAS slots in each. http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/powervault-md1220/fs Frank Kennedy

[MCN-L] [IT SIG:] Indexing system for museum photos (non-art, non-archives)

into a terabyte-sized database. Thanks! Frank Kennedy, IT Manager Norman Rockwell Museum