>(3) As I experiment and futz, I wonder exactly what Nikon's "auto-exposure" >is doing to the raw scan results. I can't find any documentation. In my >film >speed scans, I can see that AE is trying to control the highlights, but >I don't >know how AE is doing this. Is it *only* the equivalent of a curve adjustment >that I could make myself, or is it adjusting the analog gain or maybe doing >something else? Any input here would be greatly appreciated. >
Nikon's s/w no matter the setting for it's clipping zones is quite aggressive in setting levels and contrasts. While Hamrick's VueScan is not without its quirks, I find myself using it more and more often over NikonScan because I get a much much wider range from it than from NikonScan. There's detail in shadows and highlights in VS that I canNOT get with NikonScan w/o a great deal of work. Note that this may be different for LS-5000/9000 users since Nikon's s/w has a few extra options for those scanners to do with shadow-detail and highlights. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body