I will be spotting & retouching soon for the first time. I've only heard & read about Spot tone & paints. I saw a set of photographic pens for spotting & retouching in a camera store. I never heard of pens for spotting before but it seems like it would be cleaner & neater, maybe safer, than paints. Any opinions or advice? Thanks.

-- Steven (SAGJRNY@HOTMAIL.COM), March 03, 1999

Answers

The pens work fine, just take some getting used to if you already use ordinary Spotone.

-- John Hicks / John's Camera Shop (jbh@magicnet.net), March 04, 1999.

I use the spot pens. They are a breeze.

-- Tim Brown (brownt@ase.com), March 04, 1999.

Use a light touch. There are sets for both cold tone and warm tone black and white papers. There is also a set of pens for bleaching out black spots caused by pinholes in the negative. You then fill in with the spotting pen of the appropriate color.

-- Tony Brent (ajbrent@mich.com), March 08, 1999.

Pens for spotting

It appears technology has sped past me. I have heard of "Spotting Pens" for some time but never heard of results. Many thanks for your input and I will look for some pens in the near future.

-- H. David Huffman (craptalk@ix.netcom.com), May 12, 1999.

I'm also going to spot for the first time. Please let me know how you get on with these spotting pens.

-- David Owens (david@rador.co.uk), December 18, 1999.