I bought this scanner about a year ago from a small mom and pop photo lab ran by an older couple. They had never used it, or they had tried once but didn't end up understanding it, so it sat in its box and then I picked it up to replace my Nikon 8000 (after nearly 10 years of hard use). The 9000 is in A+ condition. I've maybe done 50 scans on it. It works flawlessly. It gives a much sharper and cleaner scan than my 8000 ever did. (I was actually surprised at how much sharper.) The only thing I will note is one of the rubber feet is missing on it, but a piece of foam core replaces it perfectly. I've always kept it covered and it's been in a pet and smoke free environment. The glass fluid holder has seen more use, since I used it w/ my 8000, and there are a few very very small cleaning marks on the glass, but I've never seen them in the scans (the fluid fills in all scratches). but should you ever choose or need to, replacing the glass on the tray is an easy and cheap DIY job.

I don't have the original film holders (sold them w/ the 8000). Instead, I have a fluid mounting glass holder (made by Aztek/Kami originally, but they no longer make them). I've all the supplies including fluid and film overlay which I'll include. All you'll need in addition is some glass cleaner (half water and half alcohol) and paper towels or scanner glass wipes to clean between scans. There are a number of full bottles of Lumina Scan Science Wet Mounting fluid out of Canada; the best fluid you can buy imo. There is a, maybe 3/4 full box of 8.5x11 Aztek mylar film overlays for the top of the wet mount. All in all there are enough supplies for lots and lots of scans, hundreds and hundreds, and you can still easily buy supplies for wet mounting from a number of sources (including Aztek and Scan Science). There is probably $800 worth of wet scanning equipment here on top of the scanner. The wet mount tray was $500+ new, and they're very hard to find now.

Fluid mounting is, in my opinion, the only way to really use this scanner to it's potential. It's a simple and easy work flow that takes a bit longer, but literally gives you a scan head and shoulders nicer than anything you could get w/ the nikon holders. The fluid gives perfect edge to edge sharpness and makes the scan so clean you don't need to use digital ICE (sharper scan).

I can give you a full instructional demonstration if you wish. It's really simple, and easy to do a few pieces of film at a time. I've learned all the in and outs of this scanner and it's software over the years, and would be happy to answer any questions. I can provide the Nikon Scan software. Though I've been using CFSystems colorperfect plugin...I don't think I can transfer it over to the buyer though. I can explain how it works, very simply you do a linear gamma scan w/ Nikon scan (a raw scan) and then use CFsytems plugin to handle the inversion. It's a bit quirky at first (like all scanner software), and not necessary at all, I just preferred it for black and white tonality in my workflow.

I think $4000 + shipping is fair for this, especially w/ the wet mounting equipment.

The scanner is located in NYC, but I will ship one we determine costs. I'll only ship insured though. Please email me w/ any questions at all, studio at graememitchell.com. For references, I'm a regular contributor over at apug, and can provide ebay account w/ feedback.

(Edit: for some reason my pictures aren't uploading here. But email me and I can fwd them along.)