Mario Teixeira wrote: > "Thomas Maugham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a good way to clean slides and negs prior to scanning? I > clean the best I can with a soft brush and light puffs of air but still wind > up with dust on my scans. I verified that the dust is not in my scanner. > I'd like to get as much off the originals as possible as I don't like to use > dust spotting tools as I feel that they degrade the image.
Although in my current house where dust levels are a great deal lower than in my previous house (probably partly due to now having an electronic house filter of the Honeywell variety), I still need to remove a little dust. What works wonderfully is something that's been around for a half century or so (at least). It's a "Staticmaster" brush. Comes in several sizes with soft bristles, but its trick is a strip of polonium near the base of the bristles. It radiates alpha particles out a couple inches and eliminates static -- which is why it's so effective at brushing off dust. The polonium strip "module" needs to be replaced periodically, its half-life is pretty quick (but is effective for quite a few half-lives). Not something to buy an old one of (other than for the brush, which is, a good one). Mike K. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body