Better Light 7 - Manual (Page 66)

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Image File Management and Retrieval
Digital scanning cameras can easily generate gigabytes of image data in a single day. The transfer,
handling, and storage of this amount of information should be carefully considered to optimize both
time and efficiency.
Better Light’s USB-2 based camera system stores all images onto a dedicated internal hard drive
in raw 16-bit per color mode. The tone curve in effect when the final image was captured is also
stored with the raw image. When the images are retrieved, several options are provided for the storage
of image data onto the host computer, as will be described in subsequent pages.
Image data scanned to the digital camera’s internal disk drive places minimal requirements on
the host computer during the scan, and allows most of the computer’s RAM to be allocated to other
applications, such as Photoshop. The computer can even be used for other tasks during such scans,
which can be useful when longer scans are required. Such images are saved in a proprietary format on
the camera disk drive, and must be transferred to the host computer for further use.
Image files can automatically be retrieved to a removable storage device by designating a folder
on the removable drive as the destination for automatically-saved scans; see File Preferences for details
on selecting the destination folder.