Hi Jorge,
The problem you report and show is most likely caused by contamination
of the optical pathway with smoke, grease, dust or dirt. If the scanner
is in an area with cigarette smokers, industrial vapors, or dust, it
tends to build up on the mirror and or lenses, and this causes the
"flaring" you are seeing.
There are some people on this list who own the same unit and may be able
to explain how you can go about opening and cleaning the scanner.
Art
jd@karaba.com wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> I have a LS 2000 from 1999. I use it on windows 98 OS. I suffered
> continuous focus problems when scanning at maximum resolution that makes
> me not to use it as i need. Also I suffered the break of the engine in
> the first year of use and payd to spanish nikon tech service near 260
> euros for reparation, handwork and expenses of shipment. I knew months
> after that it was a common problem in this scanner that cost in that
> time near 1500 euros.
>
> Since last month appears a different problem: the hight lights seems to
> flood to dark areas, as if the slide have had a "flou"/"blur" filter
> when the picture eas taken. I send a corner of a calibration slide that
> you can see in
>
>
>
> You can see there how the white light invades the black plastic frame of
> the slide; seems as if the light reflects somewhere. In other slide, a
> marble roman venus head, can be seen the reflection of the light in the
> black background (note that this reflex doesn´t appears in the original
> slide). Both images have versions in tiff and jpg.
>
> Yesterday I downloaded Nikon 3.1.2 software and seems that the focus
> problems is minor than before, but still continues the blur problem.
>
> I should agree information about how to resolve it. Is very hard go to a
> shop to make a precision scan of the slides when a "super" LS2000 is
> near you, in the work table.
>
> Thank you for your attention.
>
> Jorge Dragón
>
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