Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Why do you believe this? Scanning negs gives a far superior contrast range, you can never get beyond a little over 4 stops from a slide. I think that you will find of many top end professionals in landscape (not 35mm format) who are more clever than to believe that Velvia is the only true film have switched to quality negative films for using in their film to digital work-flow. These people don't have to pacify idiot editors who reject any image that they cant view on a light-box. <
simple. clear film to black has a larger dynamic range than orange base to black. don't mistake range for contrast itself. the scanner relies on and captures dynamic range, and stretching a negative's range after subtracting the orange mask and inverting in Photoshop starts to introduce color aliasing. Herb...