: The old chestnut about the marvellous latitude of negative film (over slide film) is actually a bit of a myth if you are intending to scan it. It is only really of use when you are producing prints by traditional means - with chemicals and an enlarger. very true - the detail is there, it's just that the curve tends to flatten a little at high exposures, neg films simply do NOT have the dmax of slide, unless one is talking about tech pan ;-) : Although it does indeed record details over a wider range of exposure levels, the results are actually compressed over a much narrower range of densities (compared to slides) making it harder to *scan*. most scanners definately don't handle high densities well, it appears to me that this is because the light source in the scanner is too weak to effectively penetrate dense negs however, my 3 colour pulsed xenon scanner has absolutely no problems punching vast amounts of light through dense negs and more exposure on the neg here performs comparably to conventional high powered light/optics/paper printing. Saturated colours and little grain. As Bob says, it's the scanner that's letting you down. k
