The best color negative inversions I've ever seen are and continue to be with Trident, the native software from ColorByte for the Howtek, but, of course, you need a Howtek scanner to be able to take advantage of that. And then, you have to include the ability to match the aperture to film grain which is simply not possible in anything but a real drum scanner, and in that aspect, not all drum scanners are created equal either. You have to look to see what the actual stops are and how many there are, and it doesn't help that some companies label them like #1, #2, etc rather than their actual size in microns. But you only discover these things by actually using the scanners and their related software. And, of course, the other big negative is that Colorbyte, despite my urging when I was beta testing for them, stopped development in the late 90's and it continues to run beautifully, but on Mac OS 9 only.
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