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Re: [Digital BW] B/W Film scanning dust removal software??

2005-03-01 by Daniel Ridings

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, dealy663 wrote:

> I'm looking for some opinions on a dust and scratch removal program
> for scanned black and white film. I haven't been able to find anything
> that was really helpful in this regard, and got to thinking about
> creating something myself.

It would be great if you could do it ... but my solution is:

1) Clean distilled water in the last rinse (photoflo)
2) Don't scrape the film with a squeegie when you hand it up
3) Don't smoke

Some films hate dust (Neopan) and chase it away, other films love the
stuff.

Daniel Ridings
http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005

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