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Epsonscan doesn’t do anything SilverFast doesn’t, as much as I dislike SF, Epsonscan is a rather mediocre piece of user interface to the drivers, which I suspect exists primarily for in-house testing of them. SF exposes all the functionality provided by the Epson hardware and its drivers and some on the top of that (it would be a great piece of software if they spent some effort on QA and got rid off the crippleware licensing model).
The scanner can resolve a decent dynamic range, you should not completely loose highlights even at density of 1.2. Make sure you are exporting 16 bit values for BW / 48 for colour, assuming the negatives are not clipped, the loss is most likely happening in the muscling of the raw scanner data into the file format.
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