[alt-photo] Re: removing dust off the negatives, physically

[clay at clayharmon.com]

My go-to device for years has been the OnePass Roller, which is one of those sticky-roller things that can be used to clean printing frame glass, vacuum frame glass, negatives or anything else that is flat. It is has saved me a huge amount of time in print spotting in the last few years. I bought mine about 10 years ago from The View Camera Store, but I don't think they carry them anymore. 

This is a link to a similar product that I found with a web search (graphic cleaning roller) http://www.tastarsupply.com/drytac-dust-cleaning-roller-for-dust-removal-system-p-2204.html

and another: http://www.sdionline.com/productdocument.asp?u=3

These things are great. 

Clay


On Jan 19, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Paul Viapiano wrote:

> I use a Kinetronics anti-static brush for everything...silver negs, digi negs, optical enlarging and scanning. Works beautifully...even for getting the scanner glass perfectly clean, after wiping with glass cleaner and microfiber cloth.
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs at silvergrain.org>
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> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:43 AM
> Subject: [alt-photo] removing dust off the negatives, physically
> 
> 
> I guess the most popular way to get the dust off is to use compressed air. But
> this doesn't work depending on the negative carrier. With Doug Fisher's negative
> carrier, for example, it can’t be done because the negative will pop out of the
> carrier.
> 
> What are people’s experience with other methods? I guess using brush is the
> obvious... Do people generally find this to be better? Are there any
> recommendation on the brush? Would you use watercolor brush or go to B&H and
> spend money on the dedicated product? (With or without radioactive polonium.) Do
> you use this technique with zerostat gun?
> 
> When it comes to cleaning dSLR’s sensors, I find the best way was to use dry
> brush. Not as perfect as wet method but a lot faster and a lot lower risk. A lot
> of things that can’t be removed by compressed air can be removed easily with a
> brush, so I hope this observation also applies to the negatives.
> 
> --
> Ryuji Suzuki
> "Don't play what's there, play what's not there." (Miles Davis)
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