filmscanners: Vuescan sharpening

[Jeremy Nicholl]

It's generally advised that sharpening should be the final step on a 
file before printing or publication, but Vuescan, like most scanning 
software, has a sharpen filter.

Since I always end up doing some work in Photoshop I never use 
sharpen filters in scanning software. However, I'm curious: just how 
much "damage" does the Vuescan filter do to the image? Since the 
amount is fixed, I assume the effect is less noticeable on larger 
files.

Jeremy Nicholl