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Re: Ansel Adams DiscoveryFrom: nobody@but.us.chickens (David Nebenzahl) Dust on camera optics, and even for the most part dust elsewhere inside a camera, does *not* leave tell-tale spots on a negative. It's a myth that even very large specks of dirt in a lens somehow show up on a negative; they do not. At worst, they reduce the contrast of the overall image. Spots on negatives come from dust sitting *on the film*. Dust is almost impossible to completely eliminate from a large piece of film (4x5, 5x7 or 8x10 inches). I know; I've tried. And scratches on a large-format negative like this come from handling the film--loading it in the film holder, unloading it and processing it in trays or tanks. In the interest of accuracy (after all, that's what my whole post was about!), replace "film" with "plate" in the paragraph above, since the negatives in question are glass plates. -- The fashion in killing has an insouciant, flirty style this spring, with the flaunting of well-defined muscle, wrapped in flags. - Comment from an article on Antiwar.com ()
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