Yeah, my lab does my b/w film. as in MY lab, in the barn. Stainless steel and reels, not Jobo.
We’ve tried everything and oil mounting is messy, involves inhaling toxic fumes, and can be done without. The easiest way to spot is to send them to India, but it ends up being pricey in spite of their low rates. The low rate is for a 25MB file.
Jan
On Sep 25, 2012, at 2:35 PM, Randy Little wrote: You let a lab process your black and white film Jan? You can then always wet mount pretty much any scanner. Via either glass mounts or if you are using a flatbed via directly mounting on the glass surface with any wetmount product. You just have to be careful to not let the stuff leak to the edges. This will handle a lot of dust issues.
Randy S. Little
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Majestic watercolors were waht my lab used. But using digital ICE on a b/w neg is impossible. ICE thinks the grain is dust.
On Sep 25, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Randy Little wrote: Well that why you have iSRD and digital ice corrections guys. You then can run 2 scans after doing your best to dust bust the film to then just reveal to the iSRD scan where ever the dust is left. What lab didn't have a full time person with peerless water colors retoucing dust in the old days?
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
WE have an almost identical setup, but use a friendly gas substitute for air. The dirt we spend time spotting out doesn’t come from the scanner, it comes from the lab processing the film. AS labs have gotten more miserly in their operational costs, they have cut back on buying new filters for both water and air.
Jan
On Sep 25, 2012, at 1:36 PM, karl shah-jenner wrote:
First thing I bought to put beside my film scanner(s) was my Meech Static Eliminator and I also ran a line from the air compressor to the scanning point. I had this set up before to remove dust from film, why wouldn't I do the same for scanning?
It cut down spotting time considerably. http://www.meech.com/en/products/static-control
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