Jonathan,

It appears that this problem has been noted as an issue with the Nikon Coolscan 8000ED (I'm not sure about the 9000). The solution is to scan using the "Fine Scan" mode in the Nikon Scan software. This uses only one of the 3 LED's in the scanner to perform the scan. The scan resolution, dMax, and resulting file size are the same; it just takes 3 times as long. I rescanned the "Maui - Window" photo last night and the lines are gone. Done deal! I'm really glad I don't have to break into it to clean it or send it off to Nikon. I'll re-post the new scan tonight (1/31).

That said, it sure would be nice to have a better scanner (Imacon Flextight for example), but choosing between parting with $10k and waiting an extra half hour or so is an easy decision for me.

BTW, you have a very sharp eye for having noticed those lines on the jpeg file!

And thank you for your kind comment about the photos.
Bob

I've had good success with the CF System COlorNeg plug-in. But I also have color darkroom experience, so using CC filters is second nature.

I've started a Flickr user group to share tips and tricks here:

http://flickr.com/groups/977912@N23/

I don't see anyone addressing what color space everyone is working in; that is a big factor in properly interpreting what a negative should look like on a display and IF it will translate to the desired target display properly.

Adobe and all other prosumer software writers are now in the throes of implementing and debugging colorspace profiles and how they transcode from one to another; woe be to me, it gives me a headache!

I hope you are all ready for the ride! ;)

Yes, indeed.
I'm using Adobe RGB (1998) simply because it's by far the best profile for my HP8750.

And I wish someone could tell me which fields do I have to set in the EXIF info to get browsers and image management software correctly identify that profile. I use exiftools.

I've tried to extract the info from an image file of a dslr set the same way, but no joy. There is something proprietary (any wonder? It's Adobe...) going on with that profile that just thwarts all efforts so far. And if any of the intervening workflow products eliminates the profile info from the scanner, I'm cooked!