Besides scratches I think the negatives are suffering from serious fading,
the color doesn't seem right to me especially the 2nd one:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernando_gonzalez_gentile/4203143738/sizes/o/>
C.H.Ling
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From: "Fernando Gonzalez Gentile"
> They are scratched in parallel to its long side, I didn't care to
> asses if on the emulsion side or its base side as they are deep
> scratches anyway, which were not removed using ViewScan with IR at its
> maximum. Should try with NikonScan, as I found ICE was more effective
> - had done it before but not on its 'fine' setting. OTOH, I'm becoming
> more of a fan of VueScan: any feature disabled, it renders more
> accurate colors than NikonScan (what a relief ! - my suspects on
> hardware failure seem to have diminished).
>
> On the emulsion side, there are areas (blotches) of 'grain' where
> grain disappeared.
>
> Overall, the negs are very 'thin' - as if overexposed.
>
> I think it was, obviously, my fault: I hadn't stored C41s properly,
> left them inside the nylon envelopes Kodak used to return them after
> processing - but I'm pretty sure I didn't take them out since 1995 to
> order new prints of them. So, the long scratches were done at Kodak
> labs when processed. Think you can see them in the buildings' .jpg
> despite resizing, alongside the rainbow's green - blue zones.
>
> Older C41s left into their nylon envelopes, faint progressively but
> don't scratch. They get thinner and thinner only.
>
> My problem: I always shot slides after stopping with TriX. Jumped to
> KM and/or KR when possible, but since 1994 my wife asked me to shoot
> C41, in order to be able to show prints to our families, of photos
> taken to our newborn daughter. Fortunately, an year later my mother
> bought me a Sony8, therefore my daughter's life until her last school
> years are recorded on Hi8, VHS (monophonic) and since recently on DVD5
> - and on C41 and/or TMax400.
>
> Once in a while, I found myself at the right time and place, but with
> the wrong film loaded :-)
>
> Anyway, during 1995 I could hardly find KM / KR here, and would have
> used one of the various types of Ektachrome: type S and SW were not as
> bad as the HC (IIRC) I was convinced to use during 1991 in Paris. It
> was the first Ektachrome 100 I remember to have used, and that
> third-stop seemed a wee-bit necessary when traveling with a small
> tripod.
>
> Merry Christmas list - I will be working at hospital tonight (someone
> has to do it !)
>
> Fernando.
>
> 2009/12/24 Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>>
>> What sort of damage did the negs have ?
>>
>> ...Wayne
>>
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