Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/21

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Subject: [Leica] Tiny white spots on my negs!
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Mon Nov 21 00:27:49 2005
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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
>
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