Re: filmscanners: DUST (was Scratched Negs & Home C-41 processing)

["Alan Tyson" <AlanTyson@bknowl.freeserve.co.uk>]

> One small addition......If you run the shower a short time
before you dry
> your film, the dust seems to get stuck down, and you have
even less of a
> problem,

I remember seeing this suggested many years ago, and it did
seem to work for my film drying operations. I had little
trouble with negs and slides in a condenser enlarger, which
was presumably just as unforgiving as a filmscanner, in
spite of living in a rather dusty house.

However in the olden days in England we were using a bath
tub rather than a shower. Working class people like me had
to remove the coal stored in the tub first [19th/20th
century British sociological joke].

Seriously, it could well be that dust particles would form
nuclei for condensation and droplet formation as in rain
formation. This would accelerating settling of the dust. So
either a bath or a shower would do.

Regards,

Alan T

----- Original Message -----
From: Gerry Kaslowski <gkas@socal.rr.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: DUST (was Scratched Negs & Home
C-41 processing)


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