Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, I got these many times, although I didn't notice them until the negs were scanned by a Nikon 5000ED. When enlarged traditionaly or when scanned in "scanning liquid" on a drum scanner, they tend to disappear. I could trace it back to a few batches that were developped together, but couldn't pinpoint the source. I haven't tried washing the negs again... All the best from the south of France! Tarek ------------------------------------------------- Tarek Charara <http://www.pix-that-stimulate.com> Le 21 nov. 05 ? 08:08, Peter Klein a ?crit : > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > Wanadoo vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti- > virus mail. Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete > detecte. > > >