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fmw42 --
thanks for your help. i looked through the IM command-line options list when i was originally setting up my processing and i did the opposite (obviously, perhaps) of what you've suggested. i'll give it a try though.

my original plan was to keep the images at the same size and only lower ...

this is output for the second image - it doesn't seem to include the tag information.
Image: 0116_000050_000231_0002.tif
Format: TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
Class: DirectClass
Geometry: 2095x2718+0+0
Resolution: 250x250
Print size: 8.38x10.872
Units: PixelsPerInch
Type: TrueColor
Base ...

this is from the original file:
Image: 0116_000050_000231_0002.tif
Format: TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
Class: DirectClass
Geometry: 3352x4348
Type: TrueColor
Endianess: MSB
Colorspace: RGB
Channel depth:
Red: 8-bits
Green: 8-bits
Blue: 8-bits
Channel statistics:
Red:
Min: 0 (0 ...

oops. also - this particular image group has a resolution of 400x400. is there any other info i can provide?

thanks again.

we have 6.2.8-? installed on the server. i'm going to ask about an upgrade.

there shouldn't be any compression on the original .tif, but i'll check. is there a specific part of the convert -identify output i should be looking for?

thanks very much.

all -
thanks for reading and any suggestions or advice you may have.

i'm converting multiple tiffs with the following bit of hackery:
find ./ -name '*.tif' -exec convert -resample 250x250 -depth 8 {} ../new-tiffs/{} \;

the beginning file size is around 46 MB while the output files are 128 MB. any ...