Why is it I seem to get far more (at least obvious) dust spots on my C41 negatives than on either transparencies or B&W negatives?
I know the dust doesn't quite show up as badly on E6 film because it's black not white. But comparing C41 negs to B&W I always seems to find far more spots on the colour (especially when they are scanned and I look at them in detail).
This was quite apparent recently when I shot some colour negative and B&W at the same time - loaded and unloaded in the same conditions.
Only difference was the colour went to the lab and the B&W I did myself. On scanning both sets of film it seems as is there are far more spots and bits of dust on the colour film?
I've always tended to find this was the case in the past too - it's not just this batch (even when the colour went to a couple of different, very good, labs)
Any ideas?
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