It appears the scratches are perfectly straight and parallel to each other.
Look for fine particles caught perhaps in the dimples of the pressure plate.
I had several rolls of scratched film (scratches always in the same place)
so I found that even after wiping the pressure plate down with alcohol,
there was one stubborn piece of grit stuck in a dimple on the pp. Close
inspection with a loupe and prodding with a fresh #11 blade solved the
problem.
If scratches are not running parallel to the edge of the film, are curved
and go all over the place, it is more likely they happened after the film
was processed.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "--p.j." <johnsonpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Mailing List" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 7:40 PM
Subject: [OM] HELP: Horribly scratched slides and negatives!
> Take a look at this photo folks!
> http://www.lunarpages.com/johnsonpa/scratches6.jpg
> for an even larger version go here:
> http://www.lunarpages.com/johnsonpa/scratches5.jpg
> (yes, the scan stinks, but that is another matter :-)
>
> My 4T is scratching my slides to pieces.
> The scratches are white on the slide and there are all over the slides.
> It seems like each roll has a seperate set of scratches that are pretty
> uniform throughout the roll. Sometimes some get added and a few go away
> during the roll. In any case, what you can see in the photo are only the
> ones that are visible after scanning and resizing. The slides are covered
> in scratches that don't show up in the photo. Some are fractions of a
> milimeter apart as well. There doesn't seem to be a top-to-bottom
preference
> either.
> Anybody have any suggestions?
>
> muchos gracias,
> --p.j.
>
>
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