High quality film image correction and duplication method and system

A method and system for correcting a non-linear characteristic of an image, wherein an input image is digitized to produce digital image data representative of the image and a histogram of the digital image data is produced. At least a first pixel value characteristic of a variable under which the image was derived is extracted from the histogram. A plurality of non-linear correction curves relating original pixel values to corrected pixel values for different degrees of the variable are stored in a memory, and a particular one of the correction curves is selected based at least in part on the first extracted pixel value and a predetermined corrected pixel value. Corrected image data are then formed utilizing the selected correction curve by correcting each original pixel value of the image to a respective corrected pixel value based on the relationship therebetween defined by the selected correction curve, and a non-linearity corrected image is produced based on the corrected image data.