40 years ago the little white spots were caused by bubbles in the developer bath.
Ed -----Original Message----- From: pinhole-discussion-admin@p at ??????? [mailto:pinhole-discussion-admin@p at ???????]On Behalf Of peregoy Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 4:49 AM To: pinhole-discussion Subject: RE: [pinhole-discussion] white holes in negatives >===== Original Message From "Shannon Stoney" <shannonsto...@earthlink.net> ===== >What causes negatives to get those little "holes" in them? Most often this is caused by dust on the negative before the image is shot. Try cleaning the room you load your film holders then cleaning your holders with an antistatic brush. I've heard that this sometimes can happen to ortho film if your using a high activity developer and a acid stop bath. I've found that my large ortho is very prone to static charges. As I pull it out of the box it slides across another sheet just building up static. This can act like a magnet and draw dust from your darkroom down to the film. I sometimes wipe my orthos off with a static cloth after inserting into my holders. I have had the best results just keeping my darkroom and counter clean. Kodak makes a paint called "opaque", it comes in red or black and its used for blocking out these holes. The red is for B&W films, the black for color films. This will give you a black spot on your negative so that when you print it you will have a white spot that is easy to retouch Chris Peregoy pere...@umbc.edu http://userpages.umbc.edu/~peregoy _______________________________________________ Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML Pinhole-Discussion mailing list Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? unsubscribe or change your account at http://www.???????/discussion/
