One Vendor's Experience in Digitizing Pictorial Collections

JJT, Inc. (JJT) has been digitizing images from pictorial collections since shortly after its incorporation in 1995. However, its key imaging personnel's experience with digital images dates back to 1989 when they first used a Sony digital video camera and Targa board to capture images from 35mm film and generated digital intermediates in the process of creating videotape masters for making videodisc. At the time, digital images were a byproduct of the transfer process. These images have since been recovered and placed on the Internet as part of the Library of Congress American Memory project. They have continued to participate in the evolution of the digital image process.