Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Can't speak for Tina, but my personal experience is that scratches and dust are added as a no-charge extra during processing. One of the lesser known laws of (dust) physics is that everything in the film chain eventually acts as an efficient dust-magnet. Background: It's been estimated that a few tons of dust enters the earth's atmosphere daily. My share tends to pass through my scanner, negatives, and developing tanks on its way down. The rest eventually finds its way into the dip and dunk tank at the local pro lab. They're quite diligent at removing it and often use my weekly submission of supra 100 film to help scrub it from their tanks. My understanding is that once the dust is safely dried on my negatives, they can then process the film sent by the rest of you. Just thought I'd warn you that this service, which Tina, I, and several others currently provide to the photo community, may terminate if I ever go digital (or when my stash of supra runs out). Mike Quinn Eric wrote: >>> Using the Digital Albums, how do you determine if your DSLR sensor has >>> gathered dust throughout the day? Of course, how would you "know" that your >>> camera isn't scratching your film? >> >> Exactly. I have much less trouble spotting digital files than scanned >> film! I'm scanning black and white film from Guatemala right now and I'm >> spending hours spotting it! > > From the context, am I correct to assume the source of your spotting woes is > from something in the camera scratching the film?? - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html