Digital BW, The Print

Austin writes:

> When you change the exposure time, you merely shift
> the data up or down in the values it converts.

So, apart from "analog gain" (exposure time), there isn't anything you can
do in the software driving a scanner that actually changes the analog
scanning process ... right?

And if this is so, there isn't really any reason to ever fool with the
scanning software at all, except for the aforementioned exposure time and
other out of band stuff like number of passes.  You may as well get the scan
as raw as possible and do it all in Photoshop.

This is the impression I've gotten myself after zillions of scans.  That's
why I don't care much about Vuescan or NikonScan or anything.  Just give me
the raw scan, with as much data as possible on it, and I'll do the rest in
Photoshop.  Seems to work really well.