[filmscanners] RE: [filmscanners_Digest] filmscanners DigestforFri 17 Jan, 2003

["Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>]

> I have found that dust is not the problem. My negatives come back with
> dozens of tiny spots on them that blowing and wiping cannot remove, and
> regardless of the vendor who does the development. Some of them are so
> filthy I spend ten to twenty minutes in PS on one negative getting rid
> of them. I wish I could afford a new scanner that has automatic spot
> removal. I try to avoid working with negatives altogether. Sometimes
> slides are the same way, but less often.

Frank,

You might want to track down the source of those spots.  Do you have any
idea what they are?  Are they IN the film?  Have you tried washing a strip,
say in distilled water and Photo-Flo, to see if the spots come off?

I don’t have that problem, and I’ve never heard anyone have that problem on
a consistent basis, as you say you have.  Finding the source would probably
serve you better than getting a new scanner, unless you really *need* a new
scanner ;-)

Austin

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