Roger: We use horribly expensive film restoration software for dust-busting (as it’s called in the trade). It’s part of a package that costs more than a decent new car, so I’m not recommending it for casual use. (As a result my car is a 1995.)
It deals with both black and white dust and dirt (negative and positive), and can manually deal with large splotches, too. Doesn’t fix scratches, that’s a few thousand dollars more! Chemical stains require a different approach. If the stains have a color to them, it might be possible to partially mitigate them working from a color scan, before removing all saturation. You might have the lab “rewash” the film — which is re-running it through the processing machine — this might help with the stains depending on the cause. Since this is new film, it may just need to be cleaned before scanning — or the transfer facility needs to clean up their space. We use 4 PTR rollers on our scanner, which help capture most surface dust from the film (as long as the rollers are kept clean). Jeff Kreines Kinetta On Jun 26, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Roger Wilson <rogerdwil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi folks, > > A few weeks back there was some conversation happening around removing dust > marks from a digital transfer of film. I am wondering what processes were > being suggested to use to remove the marks digitally. I recently shot a Super > 16mm film for a fellow filmmaker and we just got the transfer back and it has > lots of white dust marks on the transfer, there also appears to be some > chemical stains on sections as well.We are planning on sending the film back > to the lab to have it cleaned and re-transferred but in the case that some > marks remain on the film I am wondering how we can deal with it and hopefully > eliminate the problem. The shot images look awesome, with very sharp b&w > contrast so it would be a real disappointment to have these dust marks on the > final edit. I take huge steps in being sure the camera and mags are cleaned > and prepped in between rolls, plus I do scratch tests on all new rolls being > loaded in the camera. There is absolutely no scratches or build up of > emulsion on frame lines so I can only think this is an error that has > happened either during processing or transfer. > > Any assistance is appreciated. > > Thanks! > > > Roger D. Wilson > Film Scientist > 613 324 - 7504 > rogerdwil...@sympatico.ca > http://www.rogerdwilson.ca > > Without failure you can never achieve success. I have based my process and my > career as an experimental film artist on this statement; and I welcome it as > it pushes me forward as an artist to try something different, something new. > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks Jeff Kreines Kinetta j...@kinetta.com kinetta.com kinettaarchival.com
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