Keeping the negatives.

Artemis · Jul 23, 2004

Ive taken alot of photos, but my problem is, i want to keep the nagtatives.

I normally keep them in the box they came with, but soon ll hve to many and it wont fit on my shelf anymore.

Is there any way of storing them, and being able to find them quickly by some kind of organisation? any ideas?

Big Mike · Jul 23, 2004

You could put them into sleeve pages and keep them in a binder.

Shutterbug · Jul 23, 2004

I was thinking a small filing cabinet or one of those expand-files.

Artemis · Jul 23, 2004

yeah, but if you needed a pick, would you wanna go sifting through every negative? isnt there a way to include those lille cards you get that tell you what negatives are in the batch?

voodoocat · Jul 23, 2004

Get negative files and keep them in a binder. That is what I do with all my negatives and slides.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=NavBar&A=search&Q=&ci=896

terri · Jul 23, 2004

You can easily mark the negative sleeves with date and place. It makes quick work of sorting through them. And these binders are sturdy, hold lots of negatives and store well in a bookcase or shelf.

captain-spanky · Jul 23, 2004

paint the ceiling of your room in phosphorescent paint and stick all your negatives on there with blu-tac... then... when you want to find a negative, just turn the light off and they'll all light up.

bonza.

Synergy · Jul 23, 2004

Like Big Mike suggested, i store mine in something like this...

http://www.staples.co.uk/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?CatIds=,&webid=1981081&affixedcode=WW

The ones i get come with a small card you can attach to each page of negs
.I usually jot down the details of the shoot and where the scans are kept on my pc

Cheers

Synergy

Artemis · Jul 23, 2004

LOL

I must say you guys are damn usefull, ta!

captain-spanky · Jul 23, 2004

or if you want to protect them all from fire.... use some strong thread and using all the sprocket holes at either edge of the film, stitch together and fashion a small jacket out of the negatives for a dog to wear 'cos dogs hardly ever get set on fire.

Artemis · Jul 23, 2004

your right...*grabs dog* now what? o_0

captain-spanky · Jul 23, 2004

well after you've made the jacket... a spare line of negatives with a hoop of thread at each end would make an ideal 'visor' StarTrek TNG style for the sci-fi loving dog....

Artemis · Jul 23, 2004

My dog watches star trek religously.

oriecat · Jul 23, 2004

The negative files I use have an 8x10 pouch on the front for keeping the contact sheet. If you found those kind, you could throw the little mini file card in there.

Artemis · Jul 23, 2004

well...heres what ive decided to do.

Buy a negative album.

By some normal pic refill pack.

Put them together, every other page being normal pic refill pack, and hopefully 2 per page.

Then what ill do, is put a card in each one. so I can sift through those, and then ill see that behind those are the negatives for those pictures