Yeah, I know what you mean. But try as I might,
I can't get it to show the eyes here:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~nsouto/photos/2006-10-02.jpg
That's 3200dpi rez vuescan, treated for grain in 48-bit raw
with NI, vuescan again into a 24-bit tiff with gamma
adjust, sharpened and jpg'ed with gimp as a final output. I
sharpen it more for a print, this is enough for a monitor.
As you can see, it's reasonably tack for the class of scanner
we're talking about and there is no sign of the obnoxious grain
"effects" I referred to when talking about scanners previously.
In particular, the oof background is "clean" as opposed to horrible
grain aliasing that happens otherwise.
Yet, the eyes are mostly gone. In the film: certainly visible with
a strong loupe. I know this is Velvia, high contrast, yaddayadda.
But if I can distinguish the eyes fine in the original, so should the
scanner.
Not enough DR or some scan error on my part, take your pick.
But I reckon I won't get better results than this with the 4990.
Roll-on the ls9K whenever Nikon Australia gets its act together...