Model Forum / General / Models / January 2006

Question for the group:
I have a commission to photograph a large number of aircraft and relics
for the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton in UK. Primary reason is that
there is no comprehensive photographic record of all they have, and it
would always be good to simply find a picture for publication or
research on demand. They also want to make them available to the public
in the widest possible way, but of course they need to make a shilling
on them as well to help finance the overall project.
As I see it, the way that gives the best value and widest access is to
construct the whole thing as an html document and put it on a DVD, so
that anyone who has bought the DVD, with any browser on any machine
will be able to access the whole of it without requiring huge
processing horsepower. It may not be the glitziest way of doing it, but
it will certainly have longevity and still work in whatever comes along
next.

Real hard question I have is this:
What resolution do I make the images? (I know about the
technicalities). More to the point, are all you folk going to be happy
looking at these pix on your monitors at 1024x768, where they will look
superb, or are you going to want to print them off, when much higher
resolution will be required? Obviously, if the latter is true, it will
seriously restrict the number of images we can get on one disc. A set
of lo-res AND hi-res pictures would take even more space.
Since there are a lot of folk here who have a lot of experience in both
research and photography, I would appreciate your views on construction
and resolution.

Regards,
NigelCH