januaryman
"Flim? You want flim?"
With the arrival of my New Nikon scanner, I tried a few old old negatives, Tri-X, and found the glassine sleeves they'd been stored in wrecked them badly, with scratches everywhere.
I vaguely recall when I was doing my own darkroom duties, that rubbing the negative against oily skin (nose/forehead) on the film base would reduce the scratches when printing. I assume that would also be true for scanning. Does anyone recall this fact or fable? If so, do you rub the emulsion side or shiny side?
I vaguely recall when I was doing my own darkroom duties, that rubbing the negative against oily skin (nose/forehead) on the film base would reduce the scratches when printing. I assume that would also be true for scanning. Does anyone recall this fact or fable? If so, do you rub the emulsion side or shiny side?