Digital BW, The Print

sounds like you may be in RGB, try grayscale for files 1/3 that size.
If you are concerned about what channel is used, there is a setting in
Silverfast allowing your preference- 
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "steveabrink"
<steveabrink@...> wrote:
>
> I'm shooting a Mamiya 7ii w/ 6x7cm film and scan w/ a Microtek 120 MF 
> scanner w/ Silverfast. The problem is when I scan at 4000 ppi optical 
> at 16 bit my resulting files are 500+ MB, and that is w/o adjustment 
> layers in the post processing stage which can be 1 gb+!  The quality 
> BTW is usually better than my 5D Canon... I've tested downsampling to 
> 3200 and even 2400 ppi and I really can't see a difference which brings 
> it down nearly half the file size.  I'm not even sure I can see a 
> differnce when downsampling from 16 bit to 8 bit if I don't do much 
> post processing. I'm just wondering what other folks do to keep there 
> files sizes reasonable and still attain the highest quality...? 
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> SteveB
>