[filmscanners] Re: Flattening negatives

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

The curvature of film is directly related to the drying technique used.
("Air temperature" dry, force hot air dry, hang dry, loop over and dry,
etc.)  Most of my dip and dunk suffer from a curve in the other
direction at the middle of the roll (frame 18-19-20) because the labs I
use all seem to bend the film in half for dip and dunk and drying.

The method of processing probably has little to no relation to the film
curvature.

Art

Matthias Felsch wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <doogle@doogle.com>
> To: <box2@mfelsch.de>
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 4:28 AM
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Flattening negatives
>
> I agree with nearly everything you say, but one thing is different:
>
> My slide films are (slightly) curved, when developed in a dip- and - dunk- 
>processor,
> and they are completely flat, when developed in a big lab with roller 
>machines...
> I made this experience (and the others regarding scratches and dirt, too :-( 
>) with
> several labs of each kind.
> I never found a dip- and- dunk- lab that could deliver the films as flat as 
>they come
> from the roller- processing lab.
>
> Matthias
>


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