[Leica] Make sure your film scanners are clean....

[fredhess at phenix-visuals.nl (Fred Hess)]

Hello Yama,

Here is another very useful link: How to clean your scanner.

http://www.pearsonimaging.com/articles/howto/ls5000cleaning.html

I have cleaned my coolscan according these instructions, and it is a
difference like 'night and day'. Wow!

Regards

Fred 

The Hague/Holland

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yama Nawabi" <mknawabi.lug@gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:53 PM
Subject: [Leica] Make sure your film scanners are clean....


> After trying to find out what the heck was wrong with my negatives, I 
> finally found it. It was never the negatives, it was my damned scanner!
> 
> So, I set out to clean it after looking up "dark streaks" + "coolscan" 
> in google, and found a neat page with instructions..
> 
> Anyway, here is a scan after cleaning:
> http://flickr.com/photos/helloyama/3176722826/
> 
> And here is the same scan before cleaning:
> http://flickr.com/photos/helloyama/3170650845/
> 
> 
> Ouch. Make sure your scanner's mirror is clean. It makes a world of a 
> difference :(
> 
> And on the bright side, trying to find out where I was erring, I fixed 
> my exposure and developing :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Yama Nawabi
> 
> 
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