Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:55 PM 12/15/2003 -0800, Ted Grant wrote: >Yes of course, sorry. I misunderstood your post. > >Sandy & I are sticklers for clean negs whether wet or scanner printing. If >one starts without cleaning their negs as clean as possible all they're >doing is creating a waste of time later spotting for hours in either case. One thing I should mention is that I don't have a darkroom. Just a garage to use the Jobo. The only dark place is the film changing bag. So the place is relatively speaking, pretty dusty :-( The only recourse may be an expensive dust free drying thing that K&S sells for $300+? I don't have an enlarger either - no room even if I want to. That's the nice thing about the digital darkroom and the Jobo, I don't need space to put sinks and stuff. >Although I've found I'd much rather spot via PShop than spit and brush.;-) > >It's my understanding Nikon digital ice isn't effective with B&W because the >ice reads the grain as dust or something like that. However, that's by word >of mouth as I've not seen samples. ICE works amazingly well on color film. I never have to clean stuff off. Of course I am talking about newly developed stuff and not 50 years old scratched and dusty films. ICE does not work on B&W at all because ICE relies on using the IR filter on one of the dye layer or something. >But digital ice on colour apparently works amazingly well. Thanks! // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard@imagecraft.com) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html