filmscanners: Re: Emulsion flaws (was dust in SS4000)

2001-09-21 Thread Roger Smith
At 9:06 AM +0100 9/21/01, Alan Tyson wrote: >I have seen something similar recently (5K Scanwit/Vuescan >positive clip attached) on a neg film processed in a >brand-new Kodak minilab in my local Tesco store. The bubbles >on mine are about 140 microns diameter (15pixels @ 2700ppi), >but I can't tel

filmscanners: Re: Emulsion flaws (was dust in SS4000)

2001-09-23 Thread Roger Smith
At 10:53 AM +1000 9/23/01, Rob Geraghty wrote: >When I spoke to the lab, they said that Fuji and Kodak films >behaved quite differently in that chemistry tended to sit in the sprocket >holes on the kodak film - resulting in the rings - but didn't on Fuji film. >It sounds to me like the surface ten

Re: filmscanners: Re: Emulsion flaws (was dust in SS4000)

2001-09-22 Thread Owen P. Evans
at UNB and I know a Roger Smith in the Chem. Dept. at Mt. Allison. Are you working at both campuses? Regards, Owen - Original Message - From: "Roger Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 3:44 PM Subject: filmscanner

Re: filmscanners: Re: Emulsion flaws (was dust in SS4000)

2001-09-22 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Roger Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not only is the Fuji slide sharper, it shows relatively few, > large bubbles compared to the Kodak slide. The Fuji bubbles appear as > a few fairly obvious spots on a scan - easy to spot out in Photoshop. > The Kodak slide when scanned shows a gritty, gra

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Re: Emulsion flaws (was dust in SS4000)

2001-09-23 Thread Rob Geraghty
Roger wrote: > As you may have read, I now realize these mysterious > "bubbles" are in undeveloped film and thus are not a > product of developing quirks. I'm sorry for making > such a misleading statement. No need to apologise. I was expecting that they might have been bubbles in the plastic o