diff --git a/src/main/java/bigwarp/BigWarpInit.java b/src/main/java/bigwarp/BigWarpInit.java
index f03063f9..ed8ad65d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/bigwarp/BigWarpInit.java
+++ b/src/main/java/bigwarp/BigWarpInit.java
@@ -1038,15 +1038,15 @@ public static <T extends NumericType<T> & NativeType<T>, V extends Volatile<T> &
 			// update the source transform to take into account any change in bounding box 
 			final AffineTransform3D newSourceTform = origScaleTform.copy();
 			final Translation tlation = new Translation(targetInterval.minAsDoubleArray());
-			newSourceTform.concatenate(tlation.inverse());
+			newSourceTform.concatenate(tlation);
 			sourceTransforms[i] = newSourceTform;
 
 			InvertibleRealTransformSequence tformToPixelSpace = new InvertibleRealTransformSequence();
-			tformToPixelSpace.add(origScaleTform);
+			tformToPixelSpace.add(newSourceTform);
 			tformToPixelSpace.add(transform.copy());
-			tformToPixelSpace.add(newSourceTform.inverse());
+			tformToPixelSpace.add(origScaleTform.inverse());
 
-			final RandomAccessibleInterval<T> raiTform = transform( img, pixelInterval, tformToPixelSpace);
+			final RandomAccessibleInterval<T> raiTform = transform(img, pixelInterval, tformToPixelSpace);
 			final ReadOnlyCachedCellImgFactory cacheFactory = new ReadOnlyCachedCellImgFactory(
 					new ReadOnlyCachedCellImgOptions()
 							.volatileAccesses(true)
@@ -1071,16 +1071,16 @@ public void load(SingleCellArrayImg<T, ?> cell) throws Exception {
 			final CacheHints cacheHints = new CacheHints(LoadingStrategy.BUDGETED, priority, false);
 			vmipmaps[i] = VolatileViews.wrapAsVolatile(cachedTransformedMipmap, sharedQueue, cacheHints);
 		}
-
 		final RandomAccessibleIntervalMipmapSource<T> cachedTransformedSource =
 				new RandomAccessibleIntervalMipmapSource<T>(
 						mipmaps,
 						type,
 						sourceTransforms,
 						src.getVoxelDimensions(),
-						src.getName(),
+						src.getName() + "cached tform", 
 						src.doBoundingBoxCulling());
 
+
 		final Source<V> vsrc = new VolatileSource<T, V>(cachedTransformedSource, vtype, sharedQueue);
 		final SourceAndConverter<V> vsac = new SourceAndConverter<V>(vsrc, BigDataViewer.createConverterToARGB(vtype));
 		return new SourceAndConverter<T>(cachedTransformedSource, BigDataViewer.createConverterToARGB(type), vsac);
diff --git a/src/test/java/bigwarp/BigWarpTransformCacheTests.java b/src/test/java/bigwarp/BigWarpTransformCacheTests.java
index 7cb88108..669f3b37 100644
--- a/src/test/java/bigwarp/BigWarpTransformCacheTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/bigwarp/BigWarpTransformCacheTests.java
@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@ public void cachedIdentityTransform() {
 		Source<UnsignedByteType> tgtSrc = bwData.getTargetSource(0).getSpimSource();
 		assertEquals("moving source is not cached", CachedCellImg.class, mvgSrc.getSource(0, 0).getClass());
 
+		assertArrayEquals("scale level 0 pixel raster wrong size",
+				tgtSrc.getSource(0, 0).dimensionsAsLongArray(),
+				mvgSrc.getSource(0, 0).dimensionsAsLongArray());
+		assertArrayEquals("scale level 1 pixel raster wrong size",
+				tgtSrc.getSource(0, 1).dimensionsAsLongArray(),
+				mvgSrc.getSource(0, 1).dimensionsAsLongArray());
+
 		assertTrue("scale level 0 not equal", equal(tgtSrc.getSource(0, 0), mvgSrc.getSource(0, 0)));
 		assertTrue("scale level 1 not equal", equal(tgtSrc.getSource(0, 1), mvgSrc.getSource(0, 1)));
 	}
@@ -111,7 +118,7 @@ public void cachedTranslationTransformOffset() {
 
 		final AffineTransform3D tgtTform0 = new AffineTransform3D();
 		tgtSrc.getSourceTransform(0, 0, tgtTform0);
-		tgtTform0.preConcatenate(translation);
+		tgtTform0.preConcatenate(translation.inverse());
 
 		assertArrayEquals("mvg transform is not the translated tgt transform", tgtTform0.getRowPackedCopy(), mvgTform0.getRowPackedCopy(), 1e-9);
 	}