Dear Contributors, about 8 months ago I posted a similar question and received many different schol arly answers, almost all of them seemed to assume, as I did myself, that the dus t or hair-like specs on my film (which were there before of shooting the film, t herefore resulting in a nasty-difficult to retouch black hair or spec on the fil m)came from the enviroment. The solutions offered varied from: "clean-your-room- and-don't-wear-a-woolen-sweater" to "buy-yourselves-a-decent-but-expensive-quick load-or-readyload-gizmo". The second option for many reasons, the first being the scarcely available film (qickload is not imported in the Netherlands and you have to order in England.. and last but not least the price!) made up my mind for me. So I set off to clean up my act although I have never had any problem before, fo r many years now. I could not get a spotlessy clean room so I bought a changing room from photofle x .I managed to buy an antistatic device from Simco to make my film-holders anti static. I bought new film holders. All this to no avail at all! There were less but there still were hair-like or specs nasties. I then did what I should have done before and loaded some unexposed films in my holders and done the normal operations but with the light on! Blew any dust away from the film, put it trough the antistatic thing,put the holder through the an tistatic machine, loaded several film holders, old and new, and opened them pul ling the dark slide as if I had to shoot a film and yes, there they were, the ha irs or dust particles on my film. Old and new holders had this. Repeating the pr ocedure several times gave erratic results. My deductions are that the hairs come from the velvet stripe inside the chassis( film holders). Does anybody have any advice about this? Please do not tell me to use quickloads or readyloads or to clean my room or anything of this sort because my experimen t clearly demonstrates that this factors aren't playing any role here. How is it possible that nobody else has this?Most Film Holders are manifatured b y the same company in America and they should be the same. I tried Old and new f idelity and Lisco, same results.Please help, I am going nuts!
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