Thys, In my few tests with it, I've found that manual focussing 'on-screen' rather than using the knob on the front of the scanner seemed to give me much better results.
And saving the files as tiffs with lossless LZW compression reduces them to about a third. Bob Frost. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Maybe I should try the manual focus thing on the Minolta? > Now, If only I could figure out how to archive these massive files? At 3 or > less scans per cd, it could become an expensive exercise by the time I have > re-scanned most of my 5000+ slide library :-(. I know I could store them in > 8 bit format (file size now 'only' 100Mb) but I feel as if too much data has > been lost? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
