Good idea on the burning in - this is a neg scan and is not manipulated - looks like my direction in the darkroom will be that burn - the stand process does make it at least N+1 maybe N+2 - tri-x at 36 minutes in 1:1:150 should support an SBR of 5 stops and gives a DR of 1.3 - PERFECT for so many scenes I do. Thanks for pointing that out.