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Joanna Crowder
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From: Columbia, SC, USA
Registered: Oct 2017


 - posted October 20, 2017 08:23 AM      Profile for Joanna Crowder   Email Joanna Crowder   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
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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Janice Glesser
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From: Sunnyvale, CA USA
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 - posted October 20, 2017 10:49 AM      Profile for Janice Glesser     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
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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Janice

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Joanna Crowder
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 - posted October 20, 2017 10:59 AM      Profile for Joanna Crowder   Email Joanna Crowder   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Thanks Janice, I didn't think of that. What software do you suggest might be good?

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Clinton Hunt
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Waharoa,North Island,New Zealand
Registered: May 2010


 - posted October 20, 2017 10:42 PM      Profile for Clinton Hunt   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
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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