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Subject: [OM] Re: cleaning negatives
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:29:06 +0100
I agree Piers.  I have many of my grandfather's slides from the 50s, 
and ICE seems to work to some extent with them.

Chris

On 6 Aug 2004, at 0:24, Piers Hemy wrote:

>
> I have had some stunning success scanning pre-1960 Kodachromes *with 
> ICE* in
> that the fungus and scratches simply vanish without obvious harm to 
> the rest
> of the image.  But there have been some frames where the use of IC has
> introduced a colour shift which is not pleasant.
> http://www.hemy.me.uk/Scales/Image10.jpg
> http://www.hemy.me.uk/Scales/Image11.jpg
>
> On balance (and greatly to my surprise), ICE was better than nothing 
> on many
> of the Kodachromes - and of course on non-Kodachrome, no question.
>
> In non-photgraphic applications, ammonia is usually remarkably 
> effective
> against mould.  Do you have a slide you could sacrifice? You could 
> respond
> "after you, old chap", but in fact the major problem with my dad's 
> slides is
> not mould, so much as liquefaction of the emulsion, as if blobs of 
> boiling
> water have landed on them.  I suspect damp and extreme cold.
> http://www.hemy.me.uk/Scales/Image25.jpg
>
> Warning - the iamges are nearly 200k each.
>
> Piers
>
<|_:-)_|>

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