this is actually underneath the glass.
do I crack it open and clean under the glass?

ewww

it's cheap enough now-a-days to just go buy a new one

I just bought this one about a year ago... it was $250 and has an autoloader on the top.

did you buy a service plan with it? that's pretty nasty looking. if I didn't know you, I'd think you were a smoker looking at the schmeg on the glass. there must be a way that you can unscrew it and clean the underside fo the glass. use the same type of cloths etc that you would to clean your camera optics though, or you may scratch the glass and completely ruin it

that's what I'm thinking...
I sort of want to get a much better quality scanner...
I have about 2K slides/negatives/photos that I want to scan. I've already scanned most of them and didn't like the job so I'm going back and doing them all over again.

you probably would have been better off having the slides & negatives scanned professionally, seeing as there are some top notch negative scaners out there, that feed the strip through, and auto clean themselves (and the negatives) your photos I'd reccommend scanning them around 1200dpi, and working them down to the size you need 'em

oh, and don't forget to archive all the files in a lossless format (such as BMP or TIFF)

hahaha, I thought MINE was dirty!

that schegma has LEGS!

if you have a service plan on it, freeze it so the glass cracks, then go get a new one

Rev if you need a good color scanner for negative/ slide scanning try a company called Creole or something like that. My company just boughtone, we're waiting for it to show up cause I got 1 customer with over 300 transparencies to scan.

it's like 4 screws and it's open.
now I need to clean it.