{"id":28639,"date":"2024-05-05T01:03:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T05:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=28639"},"modified":"2024-05-04T01:00:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T05:00:26","slug":"out-damned-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/out-damned-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"out, damned spot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28640\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/spot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28640\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/spot-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">early 1950s snap shot showing effects of dust and hairs<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto.<\/strong> &#8230; with apologies to Bill and his <a href=\"https:\/\/nosweatshakespeare.com\/quotes\/famous\/out-damned-spot\/\">Lady Macbeth<\/a>. Bill was born long before photography was announced. When the minicam became prominent in the mid 1930s, negatives were enlarged out of necessity. And the nightmare began.<\/p>\n<p>To darkroom photographers, tiny hairs and dust specks, were the nightmare. Static electricity charged the film strip of negatives and attracted tiny pieces of hair and dust. Special brushes, some even slightly radioactive, were sold to carefully &#8216;dust&#8217; a negative in hopes of removing all these specks. Unfortunately some slipped through and dust showed up as tiny white disks in darker parts of the print marring the result.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, today&#8217;s digital photographer isn&#8217;t affected by dust or tiny hairs. Brush anyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. &#8230; with apologies to Bill and his Lady Macbeth. Bill was born long before photography was announced. When the minicam became prominent in the mid 1930s, negatives were enlarged out of necessity. And the nightmare began. To darkroom photographers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/out-damned-spot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[398,3249,14,4598,495],"class_list":["post-28639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-dust","tag-film","tag-particles","tag-photograph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28643,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28639\/revisions\/28643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}