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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
I guess project number one is figuring out just how large my storage needs will be! is there any kind of rule of thumb of x pictures are y in storage capacity?
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Unless you know how big the average picture is, no. Pictures can range from tiny to humongous.
My low end digital camera saves to JPGs which average about 300KB each. I have a satellite photo taken by the Hubble space telescope which is over 100MB. (The original is a TIFF file, and only Photoshop would even open it. NASA also offered it as a JPG for general usage which was about 10MB.)
Your scanner is likely to save the images as TIFF files. TIFF files are good "raw" data storage formats, but are large. You will probably want to convert them to JPG or PNG for distribution. (I use a free, open source program called Paint.NET, intended to replace the standard Windows Paint progam to do such things, opening the image and doing Save As, but I believe the standard Windows Kodak photo viewer will do it, as will many other things.)
Once you have scanned and converted some pictures, you can get a feel for average size and storage requirements.
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Dennis