One of the reasons for having an archival TIFF file is because you can
derive other kinds of digital files (like lower resolution jpegs) from
it for your website, publications, collection database etc.   You don't
want to subject your objects to any more handling and possible light
damage than you have to.

Storage of large TIFF files can become a problem, but storage these days
is cheap and you may want to investigate a separate server/huge hard
drive/archival CDs to store your digitized TIFF images.

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