Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There were a lot of miniscule white spots on my Neopan 400 negs from San Francisco. I don't usually get these, at least not with Tri-X or T400CN. This picture is a 1:1 snippet of the "vertigo" picture from my SF gallery, but scanned on my Canon FS-4000us at 4000 dpi. The spots are most visible on the windows at the right, but they are actually all over the whole negative. http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_25WhiteSpots The negs were developed at the same lab I usually use. What is all that white crud? Grain aliasing? Improper fixing? Chemical residue? Seems too prevalent to be dust. I couldn't see anything with my 22x loupe. But I could see many of the same spots both on the low-res Noritsu scans from the lab, and on a couple of pictures I rescanned myself at 4000 dpi. So something on the negative is making those spots. I know better than to use ICE (FARE actually) with real B&W, so that isn't it. --Peter