Well Joel, and others maybe I've been doing it wrong for many years
but I've always used hurricane blower bulb and a little bottle of hexane and a
wooden stick with a cotton swab end to clean my negatives and slides.
This method has always worked for me but I am interested in the microfiber
cloth
for lenses.
Hank
Joel Wilcox wrote:
> At 06:01 PM 6/26/1998 -0700, Hank followed up on his original post:
> >Well, Joel et al,
> >I wasn't going go into all the detail but since you asked...
> >The man said that had three microfiber cloths that he kept separately.
> >One for lenses exclusively.
> >A second for use with film emulsions
> >and a third was used in combination with a film emulsion cleaning product
> >called PEC-12 (for film emulsions only!)
> >
> Hank,
>
> Thanks for the explanation. The reason I asked is that I now scan negs and
> slides. There is far less forgiveness of dirt and scratches than in a
> conventional darkroom, but I've hesitated to try any method other than
> canned for cleaning them. For my purposes negative film is really better
> than slides, but the labs handle it so carelessly. Even Kodak, which sends
> the negs back with a plastic film on both sides, can't be trusted. In fact,
> I'm almost just as well off going to Walmart and having the negs all flung
> like hash in the side pocket. Similarly, my slides come back from Fuji
> almost always with a fine layer of grit on them. Some of this can be
> blasted off with canned air, but a lot remains and I have to spend too much
> time spotting the black dots in Photoshop.
>
> It will be worth it for me at least to try cleaning off what can be cleaned
> off safely. I'm really grateful to you and others who have shared their
> experiences with these cleaning aids.
>
> Joel
>
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