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RE: filmscanners: Dust in Sprintscan 4000?
> From October MacWorld review.
> "We found that the Super Coolscan, for which Nikon claims a dMax
> of 4.2, did
> a somewhat poorer job of pulling detail out of shadow areas than the more
> conservatively rated scanners when used in single-pass mode. The
> only way we
> could get the Super Coolscan to live up to its dMax claim was to
> enable the
> 16* multiscanning option (which averages 16 separate scans and hence takes
> 16 times longer than a single pass) and to turn off both auto exposure and
> color management."
I don't know that I really believe this. What did they use for a source
that had a dMax of 4.2?
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