Digital BW, The Print

> defaults work very well. You do have to make some simple selections
> from a menu but the answers are obvious. I've found you just load it
> up and use it. 


I don't find the answers are obvious or selections simple 
(particularly in choosing a film type), but reading through the html 
help and some trial-and-error will help you gain an understanding 
fairly quickly. Some of the controls, in particular for cropping when 
working with slides and negatives on my Epson 1660 flatbed, seem a 
bit kludgy (there is a mismatch that develops between preview and 
scan modes that can only be cured by restarting the program). 

I'm glad it has a histogram display, but making gamma etc. 
adjustments is not as straightforward as it is (for example) in 
photoshop. Would be nice to see an 'adjust curves' type of control.

It does seem to extract an order of magnitude more highlight and 
shadow detail from an original, than the native epson scanner sw is 
capable of.