posted October 20, 2017 08:23 AM
Help! I have bought a lot of good equipment to digitize my families 8mm and super 8mm film. I also bought a couple of random 8mm films on Ebay to experiment with. The film I bought was clean and in good shape and came out very well. My family film went through a house fire and apparently got wet. All of it has the expected mold and I have done a fare job of cleaning it, however there is a red stain (most notably on the leaders and darkest near the holes) that I can not get off. Anyone, can you help me?
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From: Sunnyvale, CA USA
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posted October 20, 2017 10:49 AM
If the stain has merged into the emulsion there is probably not much you can do without also removing the emulsion. However... once you have the film captured to digital, there's a lot of restoration you can do in post with software
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From: Waharoa,North Island,New Zealand
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posted October 20, 2017 10:42 PM
It's the same when the film has developed "orange spots" as I tried cleaning with Filmguard and it made no difference.
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