Anyone know where I can buy film negatives?

[Shutterpug]

Out of general curiosity do people ever sell their film negatives? If so how would you find negatives for sale? Is there like websites or is it just word of mouth?

 

[snowbear]

I would sell negatives (or slides), if the offered price was right.

 

[Shutterpug]

I would sell negatives (or slides), if the offered price was right.

Is there any difference between slides and negatives? And also slides of what?

 

[snowbear]

Slides are positive transparencies.
I took quite a few slides, as well as B&W negatives. Here's a scan of one:

scan0041.jpg by Charlie Wrenn, on Flickr

 

[Shutterpug]

This is going to sound dumb but Im a newbie so...positive transparency?

 

[snowbear]

A negative is a transparency - you can see through it. But the colors are the opposite of real life, hence the term "negative." A slide (also called a transparency) is the same thing, but the colors are the same as real life.

Another way of looking at it - both negs and slides are the actual film.

 

[Shutterpug]

Ah. I see. Now I feel educated. What's the going price for negatives? I realize it will vary from person to person but what's the general area? Or are negatives not usually bought? I get the feeling they're not.

 

[Shutterpug]

How does one take a slide?

 

[snowbear]

Here's the bigger picture. Slide (same as above) on a light box: (I've reversed it)

 

[snowbear]

How does one take a slide?

Slide film, such as Kodak Ektachrome or Fuji Velvia

 

[waday]

eBay?

 

[snowbear]

eBay?

Probably - almost everything else is there.

I remember the National Park gift shops used to carry packs slides for sale. If you can't get the photo of the pretty bear or elk, then buy the slides! Maybe now, they have CDs with some stock images.

 

[Shutterpug]

That photograph looks a little dated. I'm just curious

 

[snowbear]

Development was February, 1976. I was in High School

 

[Shutterpug]

Is that the snowbear family then?