To quickly support Rob's comment... I scanned some badly mould-affected slides before and after cleaning them on my LS2000. The results were a decent advert for ICE - the scans done before cleaning were remarkable in that the mould was almost not visible, although it was intolerable without ICE.
It still took me 15 minutes to digitally tidy up the image post - ICE, but it was possible, and the result was pretty good. When I did a second scan after chemically cleaning the neg with some patented neg cleaner I bought locally, the result was awful and I lost a *lot* of image from the slide - I was much better off scanning without cleaning. I'm sorry I don't remember what the cleaner was...it has erased itself successfully from my mind. Julian -------Original Message from Rob Geraghty at 11:29 AM 22/11/2003------- >In some cases I >would wonder whether it's better to scan the image with the mould on it, >because some of the emulsion at the edges of the growth may be unstable - >either way it would make sens eto do a before and after scan. Julian Canberra, Australia http://members.austarmetro.com.au/~julian/photo-an/photo-an.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
