Polaroid Type 55 negative

[thellum]

Hi,

I am trying to scan a Polaroid Type 55 BW negative with the edging intact - that is to say, the rough, peel areas around the actual image so the final scan includes the entire negative. However, if I reduce the scan area to be just within the image to get the detail and image quality I want, when I drag the scan area rectangle (red lines) large to now include the entire negative with rough edging, the preview automatically changes to much, much brighter. I have turned *all* automatic view changes to OFF, in both Silverfast (Ai Studio) preferences, as well as 'expert dialog' capability in the Histogram panel. When this much, much brighter view is spontaneously offered, there are no changes I can make whatsoever to bring the scan back down, darker to match what I originally set when the scan area was just within the neg itself (and not including the rough edges). I tried saving the Histogram settings when the scan area is within the image itself, and then when dragged out to include the edges and the images spontaneously gets brighter applying the saved setting. This does nothing beyond a barely perceptible change in density. Ideally, I should be able to capture the density settings with the scan area within the image and have that *set* and immutable, regardless of scan area changes thereafter. Am I missing something?

[LSI_Ketelhohn]

Dear user,

Did you also deactivate the auto option in the NegaFix expert setting's expansion dialog? I am not sure if you mean that by Histogram tab.
Other then that and the auto adjust brighter/darker option in the preferences' auto tab there are no automatic adjustments.

Did you change the rendering intent in the preferences' CMS? Maybe the colorspace rendering is causing the change?

Kind regards,
Arne