I don't know why I never tried this before. This seems to work ok for b&w; color is probably a totally different story because of things like dmax and the color correction required. The above is a scan of a print. Had a really hard time metering this when I took it (the only light was what she had on her claws and they were dancing around). I finally gave up trying to get a good scan from it. This is one of the photos that prompted me to start saving for a film scanner. The photo in the next message was scanned from the neg using the cardboard-o-matic setup. Note that the heavy "grain" you see in her face is actually caused by the printer paper used to diffuse the light. Makes me think that those cheap "film scanner" modules they have for flatbeds might not be bad if you have a halfway good scanner and you stick to b&w negs. -=>Donald