Digital BW, The Print

Nose grease lives!
I've used it forever. I do, however, clean the neg afterward. Not so
much an archioval issue but rather to prevent dust from sticking to the
"greased" area.

Stan

wparsons@... wrote:

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> Two suggestions:
> 1.  (The least helpful, perhaps).  I use a Nikon scanner and find it
> useful
> for dust, but not particularly for scratches.
> 2.  Just as I did in the darkroom, I wipe nose oil on the back (NOT
> the
> emulsion side) of the negative to remove scratches.  Works like a
> charm.
> Bill
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> tynmansystems@... on 08/28/2001 03:32:49 PM
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> Subject:  [Digital BW] Film scanning and scratches
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> I tried to find a group that is focused on film scanning, but
> couldn't find one; hope this isn't too far off topic for this group.
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> Over the past two year, I have been scanning 35mm negative film (both
> color and B&W) using a Canon 2710 film scanner. I notice that I spend
> a tremendous amount of time retouching film scratches on over half of
> the images that I have scanned. These are very fine scratches on the
> film base, that would typically not be visible in an enlargement made
> in an enlarger, but which are very visible when scanned and enlarged
> in Photoshop.
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> My question is: is there something inherent in film scanners that
> magnifies film scratches? I have seen the dust and scratch removal
> software (e.g. Nikon's Ice software) touted in scanner
> advertisements, but assumed these would be necessary only for old,
> mis-handled, damaged film. Is this scratch magnification an attribute
> of film scanning that we just don't talk about in public, or is it
> just me?
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> Comments?
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> Thanks, Ben Tyndall.
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