Imacon 3F vs DNG

[JyriSoomagi]

I have a bulk of negs and slides that I would like to digitize and merge into my up and coming (just finished the dam book) archive. The RAW format has worried me for sometime and when DNG came I felt a relief, but to my question now: How do you consider the 3F format from Imacon. As I've understood it's some kind of rawscan similar to the rawformat. Should I DNG that too, can I DNG it or is there a better strategy? I'm afraid that 3F could be a soon forgotten format and then...

Jüri Soomägi

[peterkrogh]

Juri,
I have not tried it (I don't have an Imacon) but it looks promising.  HAve you tried saving the 3f as an Imacon file. Any aparent drawbacks?
Peter

[JyriSoomagi]

Haven't tried it. When I was using the scanner on daily basis I was just scanning 16bit tifs that I worked on and delivered to customers. Nowadays I don't use film, but I'm interested in making my slides and negs digital. The other point is that my scanner is scsi and that format might disappear in the ''near'' future, not to mention software/hardware changes which leaves the scanner useless. That´s why I´m interested in the possibilty to scan 3F (raw) and make it DNG and be able to use it in the future. So if anybody has any input in this case - you are more than welcome.

Jüri