Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Luis, My advice would be to digitize the negative, clean it up, convert it to a digital negative and then do your darkroom prints. Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 8:45 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Back in the day: start with distilled water filtered for all your mixing of > chemicals and rinsing negatives in photoflo. Use a clean soft pad to > remove excess wetting agent or what I used at the end, denatured alcohol > leaving the film on the reels.. Then I had a custom built film dryer that > basically used a hairdryer sucking in air through a hepa filter and into a > metal tube that held the reels of film. So, most of the time the film was > clean and straight into sleeves. > > When enlarging blow the negatives off with an air compressor through a hepa > filter. If you still have dust spots then, sigh, there is nothing but spot > tone inks and a really fine brush. Become the artist and mix the colors > until you get the tone right, much easier typed than done. I will say that > once you have standardized on a paper and developer you learn the mix and > it becomes a lot easier. Wearing one of those binocular magnifiers you see > jewelers and watch repair techs use carefully put really tiny dots of ink > down in the dust spot building the density up with more dots. Let it dry > between as the density changes as it dries. This is a true art/craft and > it gets much easier the more you do it. I have to say that I was doing a > lot of this for myself and others who gave up learning. > > But, with a smile, spotting is so much easier using Adobe's tools. > > All the best, and just like using an M, there is a learning curve in seeing > color in the B&W and a steady hand with the brush along with a whole lot of > patience. > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 7:22 PM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > Steve, mon ami > > > > I will share the answer with you if I find it?.. > > > > Amiti?s > > Lluis > > > > > > > El 18 febr 2019, a les 1:19, Stephen Barbour via LUG < > > lug at leica-users.org> va escriure: > > > > > > Well put, agree with all including your ending question. > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone, Steve > > > > > >> On Feb 17, 2019, at 4:12 PM, Lluis Ripoll via LUG < > lug at leica-users.org> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> I?ve encountered sometimes when I enlarge a small dust like small > hairs > > that ruin the enlargement. I clean it, I look to the negative with a > > magnifier 8X but sometimes I?ve removed the dust from one point to > another > > point. > > >> > > >> To clean the nregative I?m using PEC PAD with the special tissues > > provided but sometimes a supplementary action on the enlargement would be > > necessary. I think it is very difficult do a good retouching and make a > > similar tone to the one of the print. > > >> > > >> Some experiences about cleaning better the negatives or applying > > retouching? > > >> > > >> Thank you! > > >> Lluis > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Leica Users Group. > > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information