I'd suggest it's the other way round - DPL/ Aztek's software may be the exception that is pretty capable with colour negs, but a lot of (generally older & more geared to transparency) European scanners' software seem to have issues with understanding the relatively simple mask colour correction and gamma correction necessary to make good neg scans in a painless manner that make it easier to match a colour darkroom print's tonality. What makes it more annoying is that colour neg effectively complies to a fairly fixed set of standards for curve gamma/ colour correction & that appears to have been enacted fairly poorly in a lot of software. I feel can say that on the basis of having made & dealt with thousands of scans from different machines & having had to colour match to objects/ pigments & top quality custom darkroom prints - and having made colour darkroom prints myself.
As it is, whatever works for you, works - and if it lets you get a good colour match (within the limitations of the dye couplers etc, etc), that's all that matters.
I've found EpsonScan also very capable with color negatives using a flatbed. I think a lot of people on this site dismiss it, since it's free, and think silverfast or vuescan must be better because they are more complicated. But Yes producing a good scan from a color neg requires a lot more knowledge and experience then B&W.
Ap = aperture
I was referring to levels (or histogram) and curves in the Digital Photo Lab scanning software sold by Aztek. But yes those same features are also in photoshop.
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