A-ha You may be onto something...
1) Mold can be found on all surfaces, but especially organic ones, like hands 2) Enlargers provide heat while in use, probably promoting mold growth 3) handled negs may end us with body oils on the edges which may encourage growth of mold 4) possibly just the removal and exposure to mold filled air may inoculate them 5) If you have a small collection of particularly cherished images, a special box with silica gel, or even maybe some type of mild fungicide may be appropriate. Art Tony Sleep wrote: > bob geoghegan wrote: > > >> Conditions are the big variable for mold I've been reviewing & >>scanning 300+ rolls of 25-year old Tri-X & HP5 negs that were well >>washed, >>stored in mostly good quality plastic pages, > > > Glassine pages in loose leaf binders here, in a steel storage cabinet > subject to normal UK indoor conditions. The vast majority of negs are > completey unaffected, the damn stuff seems to make a beeline for the only > few images I like. I almost wonder whether it is because they have > periodically been removed and used in the enlarger. > > Regards > > Tony Sleep - http://www.halftone.co.uk > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
