I too have a canned air machine, but I have just bought 2 big puffer
brushes. The cost less than half the cans, they don't cause nearly
as much waste and they are pretty powerful.
I am going against canned air since I used a small one from my camera
bag to blow dust off the back of a lens. The can had just been
upside down in the bag and super-cold liquid came out and seemed to
affect the MC on the back element.
Chris
At 17:36 -0700 7/9/02, Jim Brokaw wrote:
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...
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