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[OM] Re: Dimage Scan Dual 2 scanner

Subject: [OM] Re: Dimage Scan Dual 2 scanner
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 17:36:26 -0700
on 9/7/02 11:17 AM, Jim L'Hommedieu at lamadoo@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> My problem now is dust.  (Yes I know if I was a pro, the better scanners can
> help.)  I'm off to buy a dusting brush, cotton gloves, and film cleaning
> solution.

I recommend the radioactive antistatic brush (can't think of who makes them)
or if you can find it, there used to be an anti-static gun, made to 'shoot
negative ions' at vinyl records so dust wouldn't stick to them
("Zerostat"?). I think it was marketed by the Discwasher folks... sure wish
I had one of those.

I use the canned 'air' made for de-dusting computer stuff... a short blast
at each frame once I've got the negative strip in the holder blows off any
dust. If the negatives are reasonably clean I wouldn't mess with film
cleaner, although some cotton gloves (do they make those 'antistatic'?)
might be a good idea...

I went to a 'sidewalk art festival' today, and checked out the
photographer's booths. Mostly selling large images (11 x 14 to 16 x 20, some
panorama formats...) of exotic landscapes, unframed for $25 to $75, frames
added about $40 or $50 to the cost... Almost without exception these prints
were digital output, either the Fuji Crystal (?) pro prints or something
like that... I suspect that wet-chemical color output is going to be pretty
rare in the future. These prints were very impressive to look at, and
hanging on a wall I don't think 1 in 100 people could tell they are from
digital output.

My personal perspective on the photographs is that these photographers sure
go to way more intersting places than I ever go to :-(
-- 

Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney... 


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