TOP > Digital Archive Technologies behind Toppan VR > Generating High-definition Images
Today’s digital cameras are ideal for providing source images to digital archives of cultural properties. The newest high-performance models improve color reproducibility compared to standard film cameras. They also allow photographers to check image quality while capturing high-definition images, something impossible to achieve with film photography.
Output devices have progressed, too. The definition of LCD displays and digital projectors improves every year. Toppan VR uses 4K display environments to screen productions. Today, high-definition archived data unachievable with conventional technology can be faithfully displayed in full detail.
The digitalization of cultural properties in high-definition images reveals cracks and various other types of damage, along with brushstrokes and other clues of how the properties were first created.
Enlarged displays enable researchers to view specific areas of a property in detail, opening up new paths forward in artifact research.
