[filmscanners] Re: Minolta 5400 scan Elite Tests

["Bob Frost" <bob@frost.name>]

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" <teknovis@cis.co.za>

> 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?

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