From: Mark Toscano (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2007 - 01:10:36 PDT
Personally, I would NEVER recommend to anyone they
coat their original with anything. It's one thing to
have a lab just clean the film, but there is great
risk in coating or lacquering an original to fill in
scratches, particularly in terms of the film's
longevity, and especially if it's acetate film. It's
just not worth it, and a wetgate print should get more
or less the same effect.
However, rewashing sometimes helps with light emulsion
scratches and ground-in dirt. I know Colorlab in
Maryland specializes in this; they got some nice
results for me on a film I sent them which had base
and emulsion scratching, as well as some ground-in
dirt.
Depending on how bad your scratching is, maybe a
rewash followed by a wetgate print would work nicely.
Mark T
--- Sean Weitzel <email suppressed> wrote:
> Try coating your print with filmguard. It's a liquid
> based film cleaner that
> will fill in scratches and is projectable.
> Here's a list of dealers:
>
http://www.film-tech.com/products/authorizeddealers.html
>
>
> On 10/24/07, Ryan Marino <email suppressed>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have some 16mm film which has a bunch of
> scratches which were not
> > intentional, is there a way to fill in the
> scratches and fix the film it
> > self?
> >
> > If I wanted to make a print would I be able to do
> so and and not transfer
> > the scratches onto the print?
> >
> > If I were going to video, would a wetgate transfer
> remove most of the
> > scratches, would transferring from a new print
> provide better results?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks a bunch.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Ryan Marino
> >
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