[pure-silver] Re: Un-spotting help please
- From: Bob Younger <ryounger@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 18:15:13 -0700
Jean-David,
The "studio" is the room outside the darkroom, with the mat cutter, press,
etc. It has
windows. The darkroom does not.
There are some prints on the walls.......
Bob Younger
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> On 07/02/2013 08:52 PM, Bob Younger wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > I did not know Brett personally. I was using information I read in _A
> > Restless Eye_, by John Woods; published by Erica Weston. My personal
> > approach is that if it needs spotting it's not leaving the studio. I
> > have never been able to do it well (to my satisfaction); and I have not
> > found anyone whom I could count on to do it for me.
> >
>
> I would not say I have a studio. I must be the world's worst print
> spotter. So I do not do it. The spotting I need is the dust on 35mm
> negatives. They are clearly little bits of thread lint from clothing. I
> do not know why I cannot get it off 35 mm negatives.
>
> I have no trouble with B&W 4"x5" negatives. I just lightly brush each
> negative just after I put it in my Beseler Neg-a-stretch holder and
> there is no dust. I use a Zone VI high voltage electrozapper brush for
> this. But it does not work for me for 35mm; I do not know why, but I do
> not care anymore, as I shoot almost no 35mm anymore.
>
> I had much worse results with color negatives. I would get dust stuck in
> the emulsions of those. So if one of those needed spotting, I took a
> hole punch and made a big hole in the film strip there so as not to
> frustrate myself in the future. Solved the color printing problem by not
> shooting color anymore.
>
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