Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I seem to get more of those with Efke 100 than Tri X and HP5+, even though everything else is the same. (I developed my own using Jobo) At 11:08 PM 11/20/2005, Peter Klein wrote: >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 // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)