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Yes - The enlarger does. This seems to be the answer. Perhaps I need to ditch the Nikon and embrace camera-scanning.

Hello! I'm trying to lock in a scanning workflow for B/W 35mm and I've had such a love/hate relationship with my Coolscan 5000 and Vuescan. The detail extracted is second to none, but I'm seeing EVERY flaw as well. There are hairline surface scratches that explode on the screen from these scans that are nowhere to be found on a mirrorless camera scan or a darkroom print. Is this just inherent to the scanning physics? Is it scanning the surface and therefore every film base scratch is seen? Again, if you backlight the negative, all of these tiny scratches are invisible. Hence why they don't show up in camera scans or darkroom prints. Any ideas?

Has anyone experienced this? I'm getting banding on color negative scans when ICE is used on my 4990. The banding goes away when ICE is off. No banding on slides. Here is a 4x5 color negative scan with ICE off and then on. Thanks so much -George