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Subject: [Leica] Tiny white spots Analysis and partial fix Correction
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Mon Nov 21 03:37:36 2005
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It's just not my day, sorry Richard it was Peter K's image. Wake up 
Sharp!!!! :-(
Douglas

Douglas Sharp wrote:

> OOPS!
> just looked at my analysis again - the dark lines correspond to the 
> lighter areas which are, of course the same colour as the spots, silly 
> me!!!!
> Douglas
>
> Douglas Sharp wrote:
>
>> Hi Richard,
>> I analysed your image - here are most of your spots - at least those 
>> which are around 1 pixel in size, amybe this helps to get closer to 
>> the problem and a possible(partial fix.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/1_25WhiteSpots_Difference 
>>   
>> Difference analysis - spot distribution
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/1_25WhiteSpots_HPF_1  
>> 1st iteration (pass) of Hot Pixel Fix
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/1_25WhiteSpots_HPF_2  
>> 2nd iteration HPF
>>
>> Running HPF twice seems to get rid of a few more spots, the residual 
>> spots can easily be edited out with "healing brush" in PS, I think 
>> the analysis shows that these are minute particles, probably out of 
>> your water supply, a couple of microns in size which would pass most 
>> water filters,, the larger particles are probably airborne dust (1 
>> remains on the window pane, 1 to the right of the horizontal handrail 
>> around the centre of the image. On a full resoluition input it would 
>> probably be more effective..
>>
>> Processing sequence:
>>
>>   1. input original image
>>   2. convert to RGB
>>   3. Duplicate
>>   4. Apply Hot Pixel Fix (mediachance.com DCE Tools)
>>   5. Select all on duplicate
>>   6. paste to original as layer
>>   7. Extract difference (100%)
>>   8. flatten image
>>   9. increase levels for display and save
>>
>> This image shows exactly what HPF is extracting from your original 
>> image - to remove spots just run 1,2 and 4 (I ran 4 twice) - it 
>> worked wonders on some 1950s negs I scanned for my parents.
>> The result is quite interesting when you look at the distribution, 
>> there's a definite grid pattern which doesn't relate to the structure 
>> of the original image, did you flat-dry the negs on some kind of frame?.
>> Douglas
>>
>> Douglas Sharp wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Richard,
>>> try scanning the neg as if if it was a colour slide 1) without 
>>> FARE   2) with FARE,   if they persist it is the negative, and not 
>>> the scanner. Of course you get a negative image which will show the 
>>> spots even better, so you can see if they're evenly distributed. If 
>>> they are concentrated in one place, for example the bottom edge or 
>>> towards the bottom of the film strip when it was hung up to dry, it 
>>> could mean that the negatives went spotty during the washing and 
>>> drying process  - perhaps fine particles of scale in the (hard?) tap 
>>> water.
>>> Just a suggestion
>>> Douglas
>>>
>>>
>>> Richard wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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)
>>>>
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