The noise, or grain, in the shadows, may be inherent in scanning negs. That is, so much tonal info is contained in a neg (~14 f/stops), much more contrast needs to be applied relative to a chrome. This extra contrast will enhance grain/noise.
Thanks all, The above makes a lot of sence. I have tried Vuescan demo (several times) but found it very frustrating to use and crashed on me. As I mentioned before the invert method is the best option I have found and Im fairly happy with the results (9 times out of 10) it's just the noisey shadows that's a problem. Maybe I need to give vuescan another go but I expect I will still need to fiddle a fair bit and when I have 40 images to scan to 100mb then retouch time is an issue. Thanks for the comments. Regards, Simon =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
