>>2888647And this is the same deal with an underexposed shot, on lower contrast film.
I've also shown the histogram of the exported RAW.
As you can see, I've used a very aggressive curve to get the still-quite-low-contrast result on the left.
Most of the time though, the moral of the story will be to maximise the contrast of the scan in-camera. This is so that you don't "waste" the camera's dynamic range; when you add a strong curve to a scan, you're also boosting the camera's shot noise, on top of whatever grain the film has.
This means
>use the sharpest lense possible at the sharpest aperture - diffraction lowers contrast>use the lowest ISO>use the hardest light source you can, whilst still maintaining even illumination across the frame - a collimated laser would be great, but I make do with a flash>eliminate as much room light as possible>expose to -just- under clipping the frame border 