Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Holy geeeze, mine must be filthy!! Well Yama thanks for all the effort and feedback. I'm ready to take the rest of the day off and go clean mine. The clue was there in the previous discussion when someone wondered why the bleeding was reversed from conventional film developing. It makes sense now. Now we know, thanks again. Chris At 08:00 AM 1/7/2009, you wrote: >Hello Yama, > >Here is another very useful link: How to clean your scanner. > >http://www.pearsonimaging.com/articles/howto/ls5000cleaning.html > >I have cleaned my coolscan according these instructions, and it is a >difference like 'night and day'. Wow! > >Regards > >Fred > >The Hague/Holland > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Yama Nawabi" <mknawabi.lug@gmail.com> >To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> >Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:53 PM >Subject: [Leica] Make sure your film scanners are clean.... > > > > After trying to find out what the heck was wrong with my negatives, I > > finally found it. It was never the negatives, it was my damned scanner! > > > > So, I set out to clean it after looking up "dark streaks" + "coolscan" > > in google, and found a neat page with instructions.. > > > > Anyway, here is a scan after cleaning: > > http://flickr.com/photos/helloyama/3176722826/ > > > > And here is the same scan before cleaning: > > http://flickr.com/photos/helloyama/3170650845/ > > > > > > Ouch. Make sure your scanner's mirror is clean. It makes a world of a > > difference :( > > > > And on the bright side, trying to find out where I was erring, I fixed > > my exposure and developing :) > > > > Cheers, > > > > -Yama Nawabi > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Chris Saganich MS, CPH Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York Presbyterian Hospital chs2018@med.cornell.edu http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/ Ph. 212.746.6964 Fax. 212.746.4800 Office A-0049 "I am the radiation"