There’s a lot you can do to clean up even the worst examples of scratches on film.
I’ve recently fixed an image that came out appallingly bad. I needed it for my review article (analog.cafe/r/peak-design-…) and couldn’t re-shoot it in time.
Cleaning this frame up was a gruelling process, but I wanted to document it on video to give some context for what the process may be like for whoever is about to attempt something similar.
I’ve compressed about three hours of my recorded work into this 15-second video: youtube.com/shorts/F-6kp5t….
Dmitri edited on Apr 27, ‘24