[filmscanners] What makes this grainy artifact?

2003-12-21 Thread
I received a box of 35mm transparencies back from processing and after scanning, I noticed a grainy effect throughout all the slides in the box. Here is a very small snippet taken from a Photoshop screen at actual pixels magnification. The film is Fujichrome Provia 100F. Processing was done by

[filmscanners] Re: What makes this grainy artifact?

2003-12-21 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I received a box of 35mm transparencies back from processing and after scanning, I noticed a grainy effect throughout all the slides in the box. Provia 100F: www.tallgrassimages.com/tester/grain.tif What caused this? Yow! That's ugly. That's the worst pepper grain

[filmscanners] RE: Removing film from slide mounts - comments?

2003-12-21 Thread Thomas Maugham
Tom, Your tutorial is fine but I simply use a pair of scissors to cut off the top of the mount about 1/4 inch down then peel the two halves apart to extract the slide. Fast and simple. Regards, Tom Maugham -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

[filmscanners] RE: What makes this grainy artifact?

2003-12-21 Thread
I don't have ICE but I was able to clean much of it up with Polaroid's DustScratch Remover. I guess it must be a processing problem. I've had nice results with Provia 100F in the past. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I received a box of 35mm transparencies back from

[filmscanners] Re: Removing film from slide mounts - comments?

2003-12-21 Thread Arthur Entlich
Is the intent to be able to reuse or retain the mount? If not, the tweezers on the emulsion to break the tack makes me unnecessarily nervous. Art HPA wrote: Hello Filmscanners, i just put up a brief tutorial about removing film from Kodachrome slide mounts. Anyone who is experienced doing

[filmscanners] Re: What makes this grainy artifact?

2003-12-21 Thread Arthur Entlich
I'm guessing this is residual silver from improperly processed film. It may be repairable still if the problem was spent fixative. I'd send a sample to the lab and ask for them to respond. Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received a box of 35mm transparencies back from processing and after