[Leica] Tiny white spots on my negs!

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

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

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