filmscanners: Dust/dirt in SS4K?

["Frank Paris" <marshalt@spiritone.com>]

I had an annoying problem with my SS4K recently. For about six rolls of
slides in a row, I was getting a closely spaced, double horizontal line
across the slide that faded in and out intermittently across the scan.
Close examination with a 10x loupe revealed no such line on the slides.
I have no idea how to clean the insides of the SS4K, so just used tools
in Photoshop to get rid of it. Sometimes the line would disappear for a
few slides, then come back. I went a week without scanning anything, and
the last few days, scanning my latest batch of slides, no lines have
been evident. Has anyone ever seen anything like this with their SS4K? 

I have very rarely had spots show up on scans that could not be seen on
the light table, sometimes a whole mess of them. They looked more like
chemical damage in the emulsion rather than dust, however. Yet
examination with the loupe showed nothing but pristine surface. I wonder
if this is the same thing that Austin sees with his?

Frank Paris
marshalt@spiritone.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk 
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of David Gordon
> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 8:32 AM
> To: Filmscanners
> Subject: RE: filmscanners: Nikon 8000
> 
> 
> Austin Franklin [darkroom@ix.netcom.com] wrote on Sat, 11 Aug 
> 2001 10:28:18 -0400
> 
> > My Polaroid SS4k DID have a dust problem...dust settled
> >on the film, no matter what I did.
> 
> I don't think the scanner has a problem with dust - but you 
> may. It could be caused by static from the clothes you wear, 
> the carpet you walk over or the sleves you store your negs in 
> - or all of these things!
> 
> -- 
> David Gordon
> mail@davidgordon.co.uk
>