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RattyMouse

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I made a thread about my continuing problems with my new EOS 1V. I should have posted it in a film forum rather than gear one, so if you have not seen this already, please look here. I value everyone's feedback. Thanks.

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The dust/spots show up as white in your image, which means your negative is very dense in these locations. You could do the following:
  1. check whether this is a development defect or embedded dust: your scanner likely has IR dust&scratch removal, check whether these spots also show up in IR channel. Dust will show up prominently in IR channel, development (i.e. local lack of dye formation) defects will not.
  2. check the surface of your film: do you see dust?
  3. check whether rewashing changes the location of dust particles: apply a brief wash, dry the film, then rescan. If the location of dust spots has changed, there is some chance you can get rid of it altogether.
 

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I think that you are looking at digital artifacts. Look at the negative with a loop.
 

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Crud like that is usually from dust in the scanner. My negatives are spotless, my prints clean, my scanner, well lets just not go there. Glossy prints show it the worst.
 
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RattyMouse

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Sirius Glass said:
I think that you are looking at digital artifacts. Look at the negative with a loop.
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I see nothing on the negatives. When I turn on dICE on my scanner, all the spots disappear.

It appears that my relatively brand new scanner has become nothing but a dust machine. I'm shocked to my core to see that this $1800 investment hasnt lasted even a year.
 

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It is very unlikely that these dust particles sit on your scanning cell, since dust on a line sensor would show up at stripes, not as dust particles. Note, that these dust particles must be tiny from what I see in your scanned images, so there's a good chance you won't see them with your bare eyes.
 
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