Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]An operator with dandruft? Op 21-nov-05, om 08:08 heeft Peter Klein het volgende geschreven: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >