Better Light 7 manual Image File Management and Retrieval

Image File Management and Retrieval

Digital scanning cameras can easily generate gigabytes of image data in a single day. The transfer, handling, and storage of this amount of information should be carefully considered to optimize both time and efficiency.

Better Light’s USB-2 based camera system stores all images onto a dedicated internal hard drive in raw 16-bit per color mode. The tone curve in effect when the final image was captured is also stored with the raw image. When the images are retrieved, several options are provided for the storage of image data onto the host computer, as will be described in subsequent pages.

Image data scanned to the digital camera’s internal disk drive places minimal requirements on the host computer during the scan, and allows most of the computer’s RAM to be allocated to other applications, such as Photoshop. The computer can even be used for other tasks during such scans, which can be useful when longer scans are required. Such images are saved in a proprietary format on the camera disk drive, and must be transferred to the host computer for further use.

Image files can automatically be retrieved to a removable storage device by designating a folder on the removable drive as the destination for automatically-saved scans; see File Preferences for details on selecting the destination folder.

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