Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >