A couple of weeks back I placed an image in the gallery of a black and white cat. Comments about "soft focus" effect made me realise that it wasn't my eyes but the scanner that was failing. I've put up a page showing before and after scans (of the cat and this week's "insect" submission) http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/photoforum/scanner/ Comments welcome: how do you stop dust getting into the scanner? Bob Talbot