I agree Piers. I have many of my grandfather's slides from the 50s,
and ICE seems to work to some extent with them.
Chris
On 6 Aug 2004, at 0:24, Piers Hemy wrote:
>
> I have had some stunning success scanning pre-1960 Kodachromes *with
> ICE* in
> that the fungus and scratches simply vanish without obvious harm to
> the rest
> of the image. But there have been some frames where the use of IC has
> introduced a colour shift which is not pleasant.
> http://www.hemy.me.uk/Scales/Image10.jpg
> http://www.hemy.me.uk/Scales/Image11.jpg
>
> On balance (and greatly to my surprise), ICE was better than nothing
> on many
> of the Kodachromes - and of course on non-Kodachrome, no question.
>
> In non-photgraphic applications, ammonia is usually remarkably
> effective
> against mould. Do you have a slide you could sacrifice? You could
> respond
> "after you, old chap", but in fact the major problem with my dad's
> slides is
> not mould, so much as liquefaction of the emulsion, as if blobs of
> boiling
> water have landed on them. I suspect damp and extreme cold.
> http://www.hemy.me.uk/Scales/Image25.jpg
>
> Warning - the iamges are nearly 200k each.
>
> Piers
>
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