Archival Questions.

Hi Guys,

Recently I start to reorganize my old film... I put them in those Besfile archival boxes. I bought them with the D-rings. I shoot 35mm most the time so I use printfile 6x7 and 6x6 film preserver to preserve my film. I found the besfile box with ring is a little bit too narrow for the printfile pages. the left ends of the film strips are slightly bent.

Do you guys have the same problem? Does this matter? Or should I switch to use the box without rings? Then what's the point to manufacture those with rings?

And how do you guys preserve the contact sheets? I bought those ITOYA original art portfolio books. They have 60 pages and can hold 120 sheets (like $10 per book). they have different sizes. since I use 8x10 paper for C/S so i got the 8.5x11. They don't have 8x10. Any other ideas???

Thanks.

another thing to share:

I have both besfile and vue-all boxes. All the besfile boxes have their side walls bent, even when the box is empty. This results the box doesn't close completely.

vue-all boxes don't have this problem...

PrintFile pages for both the negatives and the contact sheets. I use looseleaf binders from Light Impressions, they are archival and oversized, so that the PrintFile pages do not stick out. I "interleaf" the contact sheets with the negatives, so when you look at a contact sheet, the "facing page" is always the negatives for that sheet. The binders go on normal shelves in my library, a better environment than my basement darkroom. Since I shoot 35mm, medium format, and large format, one advantage is that I can keep all formats and the related contact sheets intermingled in a looseleaf, so the organization is chronological, not by format.