How can I DECREASE contrast?

[harry shin]

1. I'm using the following:
* Silverfast ai 6
* Polaroid 120
* Mac OS 9
* Color Negative Film

2. Of the above variables, the only "problem" is with Silverfast ai. When I use v**s**n, I am easily able to view the current prescan histogram / image and adjust the black & white point so that I have ALL of the image data within the histogram etc... I usually do not need all of this iniformation however on some images (high contrast) it was important.
When I scan the SAME image with silverfast, the resultant image is a tad bit too contrasty (ie highlights are starting to get blown out etc...). Thus my question is, what are the methods to ensure that I have 100% of the image data in the scan, so that the highlights are not clipped?
All that I have been doing thus far is to go to the histogram, move the black / white sliders back OUT to 0 & 255 etc... But the image is still much much more contrasty than a v**s**n image.

3. Thanks for the help.

Harry Shin

[LSI_Kratzenstein]

If you use the auto funktion, you need to switch off the auto contrast in the options.
You could decrease the contrast by the gradiation curves.

kind regards