Well don't rush out and order digital scans from the National Archives! I did and am VERY disappointed in what I received. I know the problem but as of yet have not pinned down what exactly went wrong and what the correction is. I had old paper prints of what I ordered and for the most part they were evenly exposed across the whole paper print. However the digital scans are sufering from anywhere from proper exposure to over-exposure in the center to dark to VERY dark at the edges and corners. So dark that detail is totally lost. I had the scans done by King Visual Technologies. I talked to them and they said that the problem is with the original negative. I still have not determined if the ORIGINAL truely is the original or when the original was migrated (copied ) to another film or even to another sized film. The digital scans do have more detail thatn the old paper prints but they also have a lot more scratches. My understanding is that when you ask King Visuals for a paper print they have a mask that gives them an evenly exposed print, corner to corner. They can not make a mask when they scan so thy play in Photoshop curves and levels to correct the overall scan, This results in the loss of even more detail in the highlighted center section. To properly scan one should actually do two or three scans and combine the best out of each. Optimize once for the highlights and once for the shadows. Or make a radial gradatioal mask and apply it to the digital scan. So if you oder BEWARE! and only order one to see what kind of quality you get. Even that might not assure you of uniformity because each roll of film might be different and the coverage area may have been photographed on different days.