Cleaning up slides and negatives for scanning

Digital Camera Scanning
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Hi, I’ve had loads of help recently and many thanks to all contributors.

I bought the Valoi 360 kit (recently got the hugely expensive slide carrier 3d printed-how do they get away with that cost?)

Anyway, having perused some of the slides that I’m going to start with, I’ve noticed marks and patches/spots that could be mould and wondering how to clean them up.

I could add a photo here but the variation of different faults i’ve seen is quite big, and this crosses both the slides and negatives taken in the 50’s onwards.

So, naively, I was thinking denatured alcohol but I’m sure you’re going to tell me that will obliterate the image emulsion, or will it?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated as I’m about to start on my epic adventure.

TIA

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With the disclaimer that I am not a conservator nor any other kind of expert, and I have never had to clean mold off of film, I use PEC-12 with PEC-PADs when I do need to clean a piece of film beyond what normal dusting can do.

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Thank you gravel guy, PEC-12 ordered!

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I’m fairly sure that you’ll find many ideas on how to clean the film out there.
Auntie Googlie will certainly oblige :wink:

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Thanks Digitizer, but anyone can do that. What I was looking for was personal experience and that I got from graveladvisory, then I goggled it to see if others concurred which they did.

Job done, though that stuff is expensive and not that available here in the UK

All I have to do now is work out who DB Cooper was or is.