Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED Film Scanner "side" Questions

...and can't figure out how the black plastic tray opens to insert the strip of negatives. One side opens like a door, the other seems to be locked. There is a lock on the oper side. release the ...

...Using the the SA21 film strip adaptor on the Nikon CoolScan V ED I am finding that the right hand side (trailing side) of the scan is overexposed (brown dis-colouraton). It is a fairly low level on ...

...film strips, but has vertical banding when scanning mounted slides. No banding if scanned matte side up. Nikon says send in for repair but its out of warranty and works with film strips. ...

Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED My Nikon scanner seems to be scanning film strips ok. However when I load a slide using the slide adapter, I am not seeing the entire frame represented in the browser / ...

...in your shutter would give in a film camera. It is perfectly straight and runs all the way from side to side in the image. This started after the scanner sat in a box for a few months and I