Rob, I guess your dust 'cure' would help, but I think (I
'know'!) some of my dust problems come from static electricity. The
one-hour 'mini lab' that develops my negatives, sleeves them in
translucent plastic. When I remove the negative strips, I have a hard
time getting the plastic off my fingers! Since you apparently use mounted
slides for all your work, you might be avoiding that problem. All it
really costs me is time. I have to scan at 64 bit RGBI in order to use
Ed's Clean function. I guess we discussed that earlier, and I'm sure that
handling those huge files is slowing me down a lot.
Hersch
At 04:04 AM 09/02/2001, you wrote:
"Austin Franklin"
<darkroom@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> It is not necessarily that simple, though your suggestion is first
and
> foremost. The SS4k and other scanners like it, can have a dust
problem,
no
> matter how clean your film is going into the scanner.
FWIW I have my Nikon scanner on the bench on its "side" which
means that the
film carriers hold the film vertically. Hopefully this means a
little less
dust is likely to settle on the film via gravity. :) I don't know
which
models of scanners other than the LS30 and LS2000 can do this. The
Polaroid
certainly isn't set up for it.
