Nitrate Pirate I've just found the negative to these photos www.flickr.com/photos/mildlydiverting/9028033/in/set-7215... in an old photographic paper box in my parents' cupboard. The strip is folded, and one frame is badly torn.
I'd really like to scan these to get better quality images, but written along the side of the negative is a fatal phrase - NITRATE FILM Does anyone know anything about how to handle this stuff safely? What are my options? Comments
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Tim Jokl
says:
I think it just means it's very flamable. The Cinema Paradiso burnt down because of this stuff and poor Alfredo went blind. I think you'd handle it the way you'd handle any film - carefully.
An exciting find tho. If it were me, I'd cut along the fold (so it can lay flat in the scanner) and leave it to photoshop to do the mending.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )