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My name is Anthony Maddaloni. I'm a professional photographer from Austin, Texas. I'm going
to talk about how to keep your four by five film holders clean and dust free. These holders
are a magnet for dust. You know, you don't want any dust, hair, cat hair, dog hair, what
have you on your film. It's really, it's very important that you have a can of air, and
you blow out your holders before you load them up. It's kind of a pain to do every time,
but the work for doing it is so well worth it. There's nothing worse. And this happens
on your best image. Never on an image that's so so. It's always the one you really like.
There'll be like a cat hair or a piece of dust right in between someone's forehead,
or in the mountains. So it's very important to really wipe these holders down. Also, when
you're storing your holders in your house, I like to just wrap them up in a towel or
something that would really keep the dust away from them. So, when I'm about to load
my film, that I know they haven't been just sitting on a shelf somewhere cumulating dust.
So, you want to really pay attention to it and you really, you really, it's just a maintenance
issue that is something that you need to do. So, please, make sure to keep your holders
clean.