How To Repair Damaged Negative Film

So,
Fomapan 400 - 35mm film. Somehow I managed to damage a negative, information technology happens to me vary rarely, merely here it is. What to exercise? Brushing? Or first with abrupt scalpel put this black dot out, and and then brush?

tnx,

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Is that a hole in the emulsion, or the bankroll?
I've got some efke25 that the lab put through a roller-auto, which so promtply peeled off $.25 of the backing (so he blamed the 'old crappy film'). Needless to say I started developing my ain from that point.
Then I'chiliad definitely interested in hearing ways to fix the backing besides, if that's the problem.
Or would you rather fix the print than the neg? Peradventure contrivance out the surface area, and so some airbrushing? (thankfully information technology'south in the clouds)
Have a wooden toothpick and acuminate information technology to a fine bespeak Dip information technology in tincture of iodine. Be careful you lot just want the woods to exist saturated with no visible liquid. Hold the toothpick to the spot until it is bleached then refix the negative. The toothpick may have to exist remoistened several times. Y'all can do the same thing with a print. Here you do not want to completely bleach the spot but make it fit in with its surroundings.

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Aye, hole in emulsion. I would like to repair the print - it is safer than negative.
This negative is not then important to me - simply information technology is good exercise .
I volition definitely try this on the impress - thanks for input . Soon I will exist ordering some chemicals from Moersch, I know he has small 100ml bleach bottle.
Unlike bleaching, scraping the spot from the print leaves noticeable surface damage. I'd either bleach the print and utilize Spotone (or a substitute) to fill in the calorie-free area, or opaque the harm in the negative and reprint.
This. I use a small castor similar to the one I use for spotting prints, and then apply fairly concentrated bleach and apply it locally where the spot is.
When I take bleached it long enough to accept less density than the surrounding area in the print, I wash and re-fix the print carefully.
Then I employ spotting dye to fill up in the density, same equally any other white spot.
It takes a fiddling scrap more than work, but is certainly doable. After a few times it'south almost second nature.
This is by far the best method for dealing with black spots on prints . Though I utilise a small brush. The toothpick sounds a lot amend. Y'all can do this while you are fixing the print. Iodine works really fast and it is strong. I accept found it to be easier and better than Ferri.
For dealing with negative defects, I employ a Sakura Pigma Micron super ultra fine point pigment marking. I accept institute the marker to work far meliorate than Spotone. You are trying to get all the texture of the defect gone, so it is better to print the spot white then retouch it. I also utilise the mark on the non-emulsion side and so it can be reversed if necessary.

Hope that helps y'all.
This is really new good idea to me.
Thanks all for infos
Too tardily now, but really makes perfect sense - you don't need to refix it and wash twice.
Only for the adjacent time I will accept this in heed .
Opaque is a bang-up idea. You can print the neg with the white opaqed area, spot it then copy the photo. I've copied some BW prints with BW film and the results aren't bad. Only it will never be every bit good equally the damaged neg though.