Digital BW, The Print

On 02/09/2012 Seth Rossman wrote:
> I've done what Ernst and others said and made a preliminary 
> (insurance)
> scan. Although there are those (around the internet) saying to blow 
> the
> mold off first, one thing I learned is that you don't want to spread 
> it
> through the room.
> 

If you can blow it off, it isn't mould, which gets right into the gelatine 
and eats it.

If the solution you are thinking of is Tetenal Repolisan, don't bother 
with that. It's great for dealing with scratches and scuffs that haven't 
scraped away lumps of image but I've found no way to deal with mould 
damage on emulsion. What's gone is gone, replaced by nasty filaments. 
Hours of reconstructive retouching are the only way, and you really need 
to be an artist at the micro level :(

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Regards

Tony Sleep
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