>The most important thing when scanning negatives is to crop the >image tightly enough so you don't have a lot of the white border >showing inside the crop box. This will cause the overall image >intensity to be too low. > >90% of the e-mails I get from people about problems scanning >negatives are due to this problem. > >Regards, >Ed Hamrick
I've had good success using vuescan's Buffer and Border settings (Crop tab) to capture to or beyond the edge yet exclude edges from the color calculation. -- Bob Shomler http://www.shomler.com/gallery.htm