Originally posted by roentarre Gooshin, from the images you have posted, you should turn off ICE feature as well as auto-exposure.
When you scan the films on high resolution, this problem will accentuate a lot more.
ice is turned off, both cases
enabling and disabling auto exposures yields no change (for me) in result
also thats 4000dpi, the native resolution of the 5000ED
also please note that this is in fact an overexposed picture, i used an external flash gun and was a mere 3 feet away from the target and i think i had the settings wrong,
but the point is that negative film has such great latitude, that should i have using an enlarger i would sitll be able to salvage it even better than the scanner, so the point is to get the scanner to get as close as possible.