Use a fountain pen and any black ink. Parker or Shaeffer will do just fine. Or go upmarket, use MontBlanc.
Or a permanent ink marker with a fine point. I had to do this once, years ago, and it seemed to do the trick.
Carefully ink the scratch only.
I have a related matter. Some of my older Nikkor filters (I was buying them in the 1980s and still have them) show spots. I'm not sure what they are, age marks, dead fungus, or what. Likely not fungus. My local (Melbourne) camera shops couldn't help (almost all just wanted me to trade my film gear for some new digish*t anyway) so I've just lived with them.
Nothiing seems to show even in 11x14" enlargements (this being the largest size I print in my home darkroom). There may be an issue with flare (I've not noticed this either), so I reckon the problem isn't really a problem...
Ideas and suggestions welcome.
Super thread, this.
Welcome back to APUG, OP. It has changed in your time away, and not all the changes are for the better, but it still endures, and it's fun and useful. The fogeys are now out in force,probably because many of us are now retired. In the old days the oldies could annoy their families and friends to near insanity with their bad moods, now they go OL and take it out on us all in the safety of home and their keyboards. All the usual suspects happily fling themselves down your throat (I mean this symbolically) if you step out of line by even a whisker of a step. It's the new APUG political correctness and it can be a PITA, but it's the way of the web photo world...
Read and ponder their comments but apply the water to a duck's back life theory and otherwise ignore them, which is the perfect come-uppance , no attention, boo hoo! Be sure to enjoy your time back with APUG. There are many many good members and heaps of fine threads here and much much useful information.
Or a permanent ink marker with a fine point. I had to do this once, years ago, and it seemed to do the trick.
Carefully ink the scratch only.
I have a related matter. Some of my older Nikkor filters (I was buying them in the 1980s and still have them) show spots. I'm not sure what they are, age marks, dead fungus, or what. Likely not fungus. My local (Melbourne) camera shops couldn't help (almost all just wanted me to trade my film gear for some new digish*t anyway) so I've just lived with them.
Nothiing seems to show even in 11x14" enlargements (this being the largest size I print in my home darkroom). There may be an issue with flare (I've not noticed this either), so I reckon the problem isn't really a problem...
Ideas and suggestions welcome.
Super thread, this.
Welcome back to APUG, OP. It has changed in your time away, and not all the changes are for the better, but it still endures, and it's fun and useful. The fogeys are now out in force,probably because many of us are now retired. In the old days the oldies could annoy their families and friends to near insanity with their bad moods, now they go OL and take it out on us all in the safety of home and their keyboards. All the usual suspects happily fling themselves down your throat (I mean this symbolically) if you step out of line by even a whisker of a step. It's the new APUG political correctness and it can be a PITA, but it's the way of the web photo world...
Read and ponder their comments but apply the water to a duck's back life theory and otherwise ignore them, which is the perfect come-uppance , no attention, boo hoo! Be sure to enjoy your time back with APUG. There are many many good members and heaps of fine threads here and much much useful information.
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