Re: Dear Dr. T....

[P3D Gregory J. Wageman <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck Field writes:

>  So here's what I noticed: My slides are really really really dirty.  Any 
>suggestions on how to clean off the hairs, itty bitty bug bodies, and 
>unidentifiable sticky stuff?
>Thanx to all for ANY suggestions.  I guess I need to keep the slides locked 
>up in something air-tight.

What's most annoying is that, given the degree of magnification we're
talking about, a speck of dust that's all but invisible to the naked eye
can (for this photographer, anyway) totally *ruin* an otherwise flawless
blue summer sky replete with puffy white cumulus clouds.  Boo.  Hiss.

Thanks to suggestions from many people on this list, I purchased a
Staticmaster brush (recent digests should include a long, often humorous
discussion, of its magical properties).  I also keep a supply of inert
dusting gas on hand.  The brush removes the more stubborn particles,
without imparting a static charge which otherwise would just re-attract
them, and the gas blows away the stuff that has settled out of the air.

I apply both just before a critical viewing (and when mounting in glass,
to avoid permanently enshrining aforementioned specks.  I'm still not
100% successful, alas).

	-Greg


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