Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I got those with Neopan too just a couple of weeks ago ... and I _usually_ don't get them (I have a couple hundred rolls of Neopan in stock for 120). The only thing I could pin-point was that I used HCA on that occasion. I didn't do that anymore and I don't have them now either. That doesn't really mean it has anything to do with it. It might have been something else totally, a one-up kind of thing. Daniel On 11/21/05, Peter Klein <pklein@2alpha.net> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >