> >i always save the "straight scans", 16bit. these are >"negatives", they are burned on dvds, and stored away. i very >much want to avoid re-scanning in future.
If you scan a lot then it makes sense. Not many of my photographs are interesting enough to be worth scanning, so I don't. Besides, when I started doing this, better and better scanners were regularly thrown to the market. Both reasons together led me to decision not to keep them. Cheers, Leon