Jawed wrote: >By vitality I don't merely mean contrast/black-point/white-point. I also >mean the nature of the tonality of the image. Something related to the >question of "gamma" and also the inherent S-shaped response that all films >have (so far as I know). So, all the effort I put into obtaining the full >tonal range in a negative (in the form of a flat scan) is wasted because >I get distinctly more pleasing images from Nikon Scan.
Out of interest, which scanner are you using? I get much more tonal information out of Vuescan with the LS30 than Nikonscan - mostly I expect because Nikonscan hobbles the output to 8 bits per channel. Vuescan was a fait accompli for me anyhow - ealier versions of Nikonscan gave me output made useless with jaggies. Nikonscan 3.1 is annoyingly slow to do things like focus, autoexposure and the main scan. Using curves in Photoshop or Picture Window Pro it seems easy to me to get a "pleasing" result. *shrug* If Nikonscan gives you what you want, nobody says you have to use Vuescan. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com
