The claimed Voynich page

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Do we have a higher quality copy of the Yale microfilm?

Seconded! The lighter areas on the text could also explain some of the very interesting glyph choices, such as that on the first line. Also, the lack of tail on the l glyphs line up with a lack of visibility on the microfilm. A higher quality scan would help.

I found this Japanese site that provides B/W images of (I think) the MS microfilm and they are of good quality

I don't believe that is the same microfilm image, surely? One has significant fading in areas and this one doesn't. There is also what appears to be a square around the text, as if composited onto the image. Perhaps a clearer image of the text imposed upon the microfilm image? Or perhaps enhanced for the text areas? 

It must be from the same source -- the clip (holding the page down?) on the lower left side of the page is visible in the PDF my screencap was from, it just got clipped in doing the screenshot. If the Japanese image isn't from the Yale microfilm, I'm not sure where it came from. I'm assuming that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a (not terribly high quality) scan of a copy of Item 1600 in the William Friedman Collection @ the Marshall Institute ("Anonymous, The Voynich Manuscript, A photostatic copy of the Ms."). The clip on the left side is not visible in those images. Per the finding aid (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.):

On May 25, 1944 WFF wrote a letter to the widow of Dr. Wilfred M. Voynich, who was the discoverer of this famous Ms, requesting a photostatic copy. This request was granted and a complete copy was made from a negative photostatic copy provided by Mrs. Voynich. In her letter, dated May 31, 1944, she stated that photostatic copies were extremely rare. One is in the NYPL, another is in the BM; another was given to Father Petersen of St. Paul’s College; another was given to a scholar whom Mrs. Voynich did not identify; finally Mrs. Voynich, herself, had a copy. With the copy in the FC, there now appears to be all six copies in the world.

Pre- the 2004 scans, other than a limied number of pages that Yale had made color photos of AFAIK all images derived either from the Yale microfilm or Voynich's photostats.
In terms of the 2004 scan, while I have the .MrSids & .tiffs somewhere in my digital archives, all I have readily at hand is a lower res jpeg: