[rollei_list] Re: Dust!
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:50:57 -0700
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From: "ERoustom" <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 7:01 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Dust!
Hi Rob,
Yes, I believe you can still get an antistatic brush -
but I give my
negatives a shot of canned air when they are in the
carrier.
I guess I'll stop loading them in the dark box, and do it
in my darkroom.
What temp did
you develop at?
20C
If you do a lot of B&W darkroom work I would suggest
investing in a cold light for your enlarger. The Zone VI
and Aristo cold
lights are available on eBay. As you may know, cold
lamps reduce the dust
problem.
I'll have to do a little more research on the cold
light... I wonder if it will fit my my Durst 605.
Dust on the neg during enlarging isn't too much of a
problem for me.
Do you mean the diffuser will actually help to hide the
clear (unexposed) areas in the film, that the dust caused
during exposure?
Elias
While diffusion heads, and a cold light head is a
diffusion head, are supposed to supress blemishes they dont
really make a lot of difference.
Also, if you have clear spots on your negatives from dust
being on them at the time of exposure the type of light
source will make no difference at all.
Dust in the darkroom is sometimes difficult. An
anti-static brush will certainly help as will increasing the
RH a bit by boiling some water in the room. Ultimately you
just have to clean the stuffing out of everything. Wet
mopping will help but mop the walls too.
I often brush off negatives with one-shot brushes made of
Kimwipes.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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