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Re: [Digital BW] AN glass/color/bw neg q

2002-05-23 by Julian Thomas

so what do you use to wet mount?? all that cleaning up?? I've just done
another patch of tests - this time scanning an unexposed neg, so all I get
is grain. Absolutely no rings on BW, but colour... can't use it.

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Stone" <michaelstone@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] AN glass/color/bw neg q


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Thomas" <julianthomas@...>
>
>
> > Hmm just come across something weird, started scanning some colour neg
> today
> > using AN glass (all my tests had been with BW ) and I'm getting newton
> > rings - but not on BW. Am I missing something?
> >
>
> I used to think that I was not getting Newtons Rings with my B&W scans but
> when I looked more closely I often was.
>
> All gone now with wet mounting but I realised that it was that the rings
> were just that much more obvious with colour material.
> Without wishing to state the obvious, in colour the fringing is
muticoloured
> in B&W just light and dark.
>
> There may also be differences in the emulsions, I know there has been
debate
> elsewhere about dust clinging more readily to B&W sheet film than colour,
> perhaps differences in static between emulsions govern how closely they
> cling to a scanners glass ?
>
> Regards
>
> Mike Stone
>
> michaelstone@...
>
> www.mikestonephotographer.com
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