I agree with Tina. Scan the snot out of those slides. You may never do
it again. Contrary to popular belief, a 2700dpi scan is NOT getting
everything off of the slides and negs. If this was true, then 5-6MP
cameras should all be what is necessary from our digital cameras.
Logic says to get everything possible from the scan and do your
downsizing in software IF necessary.
Also, one thing that might be of interest. If you scan at the maximum
resolution and on the Filter Tab, select Light Grain reduction, the
files will resize downward better. Be careful with it as it will muddy
stuff up sometimes, but I'm finding that it is giving me a CMOS
digital camera look. But, there is a trick here...
Maybe I will spit out some samples from the Nikon.
As to using DNG for save mode, I'm a little ambivilent about that. DNG
is effectively TIF in the way that Vuescan works. Like it or not, DNG
is still not a universal standard. The twist to this is that if you
save the raw scan, it pretty much ignores the settings on the Filter
and Color tabs. If you open the file (Source on the Input tab) you can
reprocess the image using the secret sauce built into Vuescan.
AG
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