Scan of a Wratten 96 Filter

A Wratten 96 Filter was scanned on a Nikon LS-8000 at 4000 dpi, 1x sampling, super-fine.  The scan was deliberately put out of focus to force an averaging of color.  The purpose of this was to test how consistently, using the standard deviation, the scanner measures the pixels of an essentially monochrome image.

A 248x220 rectangle was randomly selected.

Here are the standard deviations when the sampling and SF options are varied.  The 1x, SF test was re-run when it was realized the above was too well focused.

In this test on a monochrome image, super-fine has little effect on the consistency of the readings of the 3 channels, whereas multi-sampling does.