I'm slowly coming to the recognition that I have a dust problem.

My time with LF is up to about a year now, and I've learned better routines for loading and unloading film, developing, and using movements thanks to many of the fine folks here (and big shout out to Rod Klukas who's also provided a lot of great info). It's a lot of fun, but there are so many things that can (and do) go wrong compared to medium format, which I've used for decades with never any problems.

As I sit and study my negatives I'm shocked at how many tiny, minuscule squiggles, hairs, lines and dots that appear on each and every one of my photographs. At least the B&W ones. Most of the E6 I have a lab do actually looks pretty clean.

Which leads me to 2 questions:

1. Is dust inevitable? Should I simply accept it as part of the LF lifestyle, and retouch it in post?

2. What can I do to minimize/eliminate dust specks on my negatives? I don't have a darkroom, only a changing bag. But I do own a vacuum, and know how to operate it. How do you keep dust away, or at least to a minimum?

Thanks for the advice and suggestions!