White Spots on Processed Color Film

Hello All,

It has come to my attention that all of my scans have white dots scattered across the negative after being scanned. Most visible is in images with a lot of sky –– then the sky is littered with these annoying white dots. I try to keep the camera pretty clean and have tried different high quality labs so I don't think it's a developing issue. The only things I can think of is that I switch the film from being in and out of the fridge every so often (too many temperature changes...??) and the flatbed epson v700 scanner I use is pretty old.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? It is costing me a lot of extra editing time.

Thanks for your help! I have attached an example detail and increased the contrast so you can see how bad of an issue this is...

Dust during scanning, or chemical splatter/drying marks.

Film changing temps on a regular basis is not good either. Is there a reason you do this?

Thanks. Interesting. I dust my images pretty well during scanning so it's hard to believe it could be this.

No reason... just laziness/not being careful.

It's possible that a couple of the sharper spots could be stars.

The out of focus white blobs are almost certainly just muck.... somewhere. Either stuck to the film or on the scanner glass.

If the dust/dirt was anywhere else in the scanner it would form streaks, not blobs.