Chuck,
Re: PEC-12 Go ahead and take the plunge. I was leary at first also
but after cleaning about a dozen slides I have found it to be safe. Hell the
Smithonian uses this stuff so it must be OK. I started out by selecting a few
of the least desirable images as test subjects. These include both pre-1959
Kodachrome and a few really aweful Anscochrome slides (an early E-6 slide film
from Agfa) that have not held up nearly as well as the Kodachrome.
I used the following procedure: Find a well ventilated place to work;
this stuff is potent. I used a clean polypropylene cutting board as a work
surface. Using an Exacto knife I slit the cardboard mount and remove the
transparency. Remove any dust with compressed air. Lay a clean PEC Pad on the
board and place 1-2 drops PEC-12 on a second pad. Use a circular motion to
clean both sides of the film. If really dirty you may have to clean a second
time with another corner of the pad. After cleaning, the film will dry in about
5-10 seconds. If you use too much cleaner it will leave a haze, but it is
easily removed by cleaning again with a tiny bit of PEC-12. Replace in a new
mount. That's it.
The manufacturer claims it will remove ay non-water soluble material
without harming the film. The older Kodachrome was coated with a lacquer which
is where the dirt accumulates. Some of my slides have fungus growth as well. On
the Kodachromes, it is growing on the lacquer layer and once removed there is
no trace of fungus. The anscochrome has no lacquer so the fungus is on the
emulsiom. The PEC-12 will remove the fungus but it leaves a colorless area on
the film were the fungus has damaged the emulsion.
Charlie
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Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 8:04 PM
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Subject: [OM] Re: 9950 FARE performance, was: New toy
Moose wrote:
> Have you tried the FARE hardware dust removal? The i-photo reviews
> showed it to work at least as well as the ICE on other brands of scanner
> and much faster. It works very well on the FS4000 in VueScan. It does
> take a second pass for IR on the FS4000, but the time is more than worth
> it vs. spotting. The results are generally so clean that I am surprised
> at running into the occasional spot. I still give the films a blast with
> dust-off, but don't sweat it like with the FS2710.
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I'm curious about this as well, especially whether it works with
Kodachrome. I have a fair number of Kodachrome slides suffering from
mold problems and badly spotted. Everything I've read about IR dust and
spot removal indicates that the Kodachrome emulsion is not friendly to
IR and thus the technique doesn't work at all or else works poorly with
Kodachrome.
Piers, however, has shown us some of his work on old Kodachrome slides
run through the ICE on his Nikon (model?). They have been remarkably
cleaned up. He promised to do a test scan for me and I have been remiss
in not sending him one for the test.
Anyhow, I could really use a much better flat bed scanner than I have
and the 9950 would probably also do a better film scanning job than my
Acer 2720s. Whatever I buy for the next film scanner will have ICE or
FARE and I'll buy whatever is able to best deal with the old, spotted
Kodachromes as there is a lot of history there needing recovery.
ps: And thanks to whomever mentioned cleaning up with PEC-12. I bought
some but haven't had the guts to try it yet on those old slides.
Chuck Norcutt
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