If you use VueScan you can certainly manually enter focus values. With the new version 7.0.10 and a better alignment for multipass scans I'm going to try with a negative that is grain aliased badly in skin tones a multipass scan with focus set to SCAN so the multiple images are focused at slightly different values and observe the difference. alan >> I can! I'm experimenting with many different ways to help with >> grain-aliasing on neg's on my Acer 2720, and de-focussing can >> help.. Because the Acer does not have manual focus, I have to trick it by >> >> using a dummy frame, but it can be done.. It's not the holy grail, but it >> >> is one more useful tool.