Thanks for your input! I must apologize for some misleading information about the output profiles in my scans, due to my own confusion. When I browsed some early batches of my scans the other day, I was surprised to find out that they had no profile attached, or sRGB, and sometimes Bruce or Best or Don4RGB as ways of punching the scans afterwards. I had to plunge myself more thoroughly into the scans to remember how it was. In fact, all the scans that I have done from 1998 to 2003 are profile-less. This is simply due to the non ICC scanner driver of those days. Then, around 2004 according to my samples, Scitex introduced EversmartScan 3.1, and from then on I could profile the scanner with Don's HCT and save the files in whatever profile I wanted, for instance Joe Holme's Ektachrome Space, and later Chrome Space. Those files are much better than the early ones. Even though the wide gamut profiles are overkill for most colors found in my landscape photos, the smoother gradient, especially in the shadows, really helps since the output was still limited to 24 bit (from 36 or 42 bit internal CMM, I don't quite remember). Those later scans would probably not gain as much from retaking with the digital camera, except for the 16 bit DNG. But the early ones are quite "ugh" to my eyes now spoiled with wide gamut monitor and such. Those are the ones I will redo, and perhaps the tons of slides that are still waiting to be scanned for the first time, before the pigments start to shift or fade away, if I can live for long enough! Kind regards Paul Schilliger