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Subject: [Leica] Re: FW: Black and White C41 Film
From: dorysrus at mindspring.com (Don Dory)
Date: Tue Sep 21 19:46:28 2004

Adam,
If you have scratches on your negatives and you process your own
negatives, then you have to look at your camera and or cassettes if you
reload.

First, the Nikon scanner has an extremely coherent light lens so any
defect in the film is found, so microscopic marks show up all to well.

Using the standard stainless steel reels, I only have scratches like
that when I use my IIIf and my Canon IVsb.  To this day I have not found
the &*%$$ rough spot in either camera so I have to healing brush out a 1
to2 pixel scratch across most of any frame.  What makes it hard is that
you can not see that small a line on the negative so you have to guess
where the dirt is on the body.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of JAMES NICHOLS
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:19 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: FW: Black and White C41 Film

Adam,
Are you certain that the scratches are present before you scan the
negatives?  Could the scanner itself be the culprit?
Dust can always be a problem when one must air-dry in the home
environment.
I've never used a drying cabinet, but I assume the environment can be
more
closely controlled.

Jim Nichols


> [Original Message]
> From: Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: 9/21/2004 8:08:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: FW: Black and White C41 Film
>
> Hmmm...this is probably my own problem but I have a terrible time with
> very thin scratches on the film I process. I've tried everything to
> eliminate them and they continue to plague me. They only show up on
> scanned images, however. If I print the image in an enlarger they do
> not show up even on substantial enlargements. I'm assuming that it's
> an artifact of the scanning process - that the Nikon scanner somehow
> enhances the scratches.
>
> I also have a bit of dust problem even though I work hard to eliminate
> it. I know: buy a drying cabinet. Everything in its time!
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:46:07 -0500, Eric <ericm@pobox.com> wrote:
> > James:
> > 
> > >Comparing results with C41 B&W to the results I got with Plus-X,
Super
XX, and Tri-X
> > >in the 1950s and 60s when I had my own darkroom, I have been
somewhat
disappointed.
> > 
> > Don't need a darkroom.  Just a bathroom that can be darkened for a
few
> > minutes to load your film.  If your scanning your chromogenic film,
there's
> > no reason why you can't scan your silver halide film.
> > 
> > The main advantage I see to C41 B&W is that you can use the infrared
channel
> > on many scanners to help eliminate dust and scratches.
> > 
> > The main advantage I see to doing your own conventional B&W is that
you
> > don't need to eliminate dust and scratches that were placed there by
the
> > stupid lab.  :)
> > 
> > Come on.  You know you really want to.  :)
> > 
> > --
> > Eric
> > http://canid.com/
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Replies: Reply from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Re: FW: Black and White C41 Film)
In reply to: Message from nicholsj at edge.net (JAMES NICHOLS) ([Leica] Re: FW: Black and White C41 Film)