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Cleaning fungus from 35mm slides

Tony Spadaro <tspad...@ncmaps.rr.com>

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.

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"Clicker" <""vze22nn5\"@verizon....@verizon.net> wrote in message

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> Has anyone else seen a fungus on their slides?

> 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?