OK.....I really haven't the time to read this whole thread thouroughly at the mo', but I do have one thing to add to this that I don't think has been mentioned.... The fact Misha that you have a film scanner that uses the digital ice technology is something you may want to consider in all of this. This technology does not work with B&W film so you will be possibly doing some major clean-up work on dust and scratches in PS if you shoot with B&W film. This has been my experience with scanning B&W using the Canon scanner which uses FARE technology....different names, basically same process.

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