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Posted: 8/13/2018 9:11:14 PM EDT
My stepdaughter passed away due to complications from Agent Orange.  I've got all his photos from his time in Vietnam I want to scan to preserve.  Most of the photos are polaroids.  What resolution and format should I be scanning them in at?  I appreciate any help you have to offer.

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Sorry for your loss.

I would scan at 1200 to 2400 DPI (whatever your scanner will handle) and save as a .TIFF file.

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Sorry for your loss.

I would scan at 1200 to 2400 DPI (whatever your scanner will handle) and save as a .TIFF file.
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Hard to argue with this. TIF files are very...very large as file sizes go, so keep this in mind. Storage is cheap though.
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