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How do you keep dust off slides?


  • From: P3D Gregory J. Wageman <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: How do you keep dust off slides?
  • Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 13:15:09 -0700


Fellow Realist-format slide users, please share with me your collective
wisdom.

You've taken some really beautiful slides on Kodachrome 64.  You've
carefully mounted them.  The colors are rich and vibrant, with luscious
green trees and azure blue skys.  You put one into your viewer to admire
your work and... your eye is *immediately* and without hesitation drawn
to that hideous and ENORMOUS black speck, conspicuously placed in the
middle of the aforementioned clear blue sky.  And since it's only on one
side, the retinal rivalry created by it just drives you *NUTS*.  Oh, and
look, on the other side there's a small hair which under magnification
looks like a large snake miraculously suspended in mid-air.  Grrrr.

Short of keeping a sable brush and a spray can of Dust-Off with you at
all times, how do you keep the dust away??  Can you?  Am I being
anal-retentive (about the dust thing, I mean, wise guy)?

	-Greg, contemplating turning his home into a class-10,000 clean room.
               (It won't be cheap, but it may just save my sanity.)


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