I had a similar problem with my 8000. It looked like fogging.
It was a dirty internal mirror. It tuns out that the 8000 (I don't
know about the 9000)uses a mirror to look up through the image. The
mirror faces up and it gets covered with fine dust after a time.
There are instructions how to disassemble the unit and clean it.
Clean both the lens and the mirror while you've got it apart. It's not
too bad if you have that type of aptitude and a steady hand, a clear
mind and some patience.
I had often left the a film holder in it with the door open and often
left the unit on. Now I always remove the film holder and close the
door. I also dust the film holders as dust will fall off them onto
the mirror. Finally, I taped over all the vent holes on the unit.
You SHOULD NOT DO THIS if you plan on extended use of the unit as it
will overheat, but for us amateurs who do small bits of scanning at a
sitting I don't imagine much heat buildup will occur. I can easily
remove the clear packing tape if I need to.
The 35mm slide that I first noticed it was:
http://www.pbase.com/nickhanks/image/31281299
Before I cleaned the 8000 I scanned the same slide on my Epson 4870 to
make sure there wasn't something I was missing.
On the Epson it looked like this:
http://www.pbase.com/nickhanks/image/31232340
After cleaning the 8000 the slide looks like this (although the image
isn't done to match the first very well.
http://www.pbase.com/nickhanks/image/38897865
Good luck!
Nick
--- In coolscan8000-9000%40yahoogroups.com">coolscan8000-9000
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>
> Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on the following issue:
>
> I just did a scan of a Fuji Astia 6x7 slide It is about 2/3'rds dark,
> shadow and silhouette, one thirds correctly exposed, bright image
> through a window (of sorts). The scan was with the Nikon LS-8000 with
>; the glass film holder, set to 8x multi-pass scan, with a single CCD
> (so it took forever, but should be good quality). What I got was a
> scan where some of the dark areas next to the bright areas got light
> spill-over making them lighter. It almost looks like a faint light
> leak into the dark areas -- a slight fogging of the some of the dark
>; areas. It is especially evident above the window, with the seated
> figures, and on the middle of the right edge of the image. It is
> definitely NOT in the slide. You can see it here (depending on your
>; monitor, some of it might be hard to see):
> boncratious.info/CherryBlossomDining.jpg . Does anyone know what
>; might be causing this and how I can avoid it, or stop it from happening?
>
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