Digital BW, The Print

I don't doubt that.  It could be better CCD, better analog front end, better
A/D...basically, better linearity, better noise, better optics...better
transport.  Many, many other factors make digital image soup ;-)


> There's something more in this soup,because even with the dynamic
> range of a
> chrome not being more than 3.6,a scanner about 4.3DR as the new Nikon 4000
> or cylinder scan better than a 3.6 one...
> >
> > Also, 16 bits is entirely unnecessary to capture image data at, since no
> > film you will be scanning can have a dynamic range of 4.8!