Banding Issues with the Nikon 9000

[parasko]

….So that is "Nikon banding". In contrast, when people are referring to banding as related to color spaces, bit depths, histograms and so forth, I believe they are referring to an effect which is otherwise known as posterization. I am happy to stand corrected on that, but this sense of the word is pretty much unrelated to the OP's banding problem. In any event this has been my attempt to disambiguate the term banding, and hopefully it has been helpful and not just pedantic.
Jeff

Thanks for clarifying this Jeff. Yes, the 'Nikon banding' is what I was referring to (not posterisation).

After numerous scans using Fine Mode I can confirm that there is no more banding so thanks again to everyone for their input. I am relieved that there is nothing wrong with the scanner and it was just about tweaking the software settings.