I guess we'll see if taking them in directly without nudging an errant reading or two is better then putting the time in to ensure that the linearize tool will not cook in a few odd readings. I guess by averaging, you gain the benefit that hopefully, the readings will only be errant in a few places, and that a real inconsistency will then be removed.
Since this is for a digital negative, there is less certainty that the print won't have a few steps that are paper white or max black... does the linearize and iProfiler appear to recognize when there are multiple wedges with nearly identical values?
The reason I ask is that the newer step charts don't have the dividers between the values that the old ones had, and I'm wondering if that is going to produce trouble.
---Michael