Usually removing fungus from a slide leaves clear spots - the fungus has eaten the original emulsion. The best thing to do is either scan with ICE or remove the spots in Photoshop after scanning. Usually it takes a combination of the two if the fungus is very bad.
> I have 6-7 rolls of slide film (Kodak, Kodachrome 64) that I shot back > in 1984. They slides were stored in the carousel's I use with the > projector. (My bad.) Recently I dug up the slides and decided to scan > them into my computer for archive and enhancement. Much to my surprise, > what looked fine when projected on a wall or screen, actually had a fine > blue & green grit covering the entire slide which was picked up by my > scanner. (HP_Scanjet 5370C with transparency adapter.) I called Kodak > customer support and they have told me that Kodachrome from that period > in time was highly susceptible to growing a fungus, which is what I am > seeing in my scanned images. The suggestion was to use a strong > Isopropyl solution and a cotton ball to clean. Haven't found anything > stronger than rubbing alcohol which is about a 4% solution. I've tried > using PEC-12, a film cleaning solution and haven't seen much of an > improvement.
> Besides recreating the trip, any other suggestions on dealing with this > problem?
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