cutting and storing negatives. (methodes)

[Woolliscroft]

Not really, although fairly cool is good and keeping the temperature fairly constant also helps. It is important that they should be dry and in the dark (especially colour). That said, my old university had a wonderful collection of 19th century glass negs which they kept in the boiler room and they seem to have survived.

David.

 

[thefizz]

I have just found the following site which has some good informaton on preserving negs.

www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/preservation/information/photographic/messier/messier.htm

 

[AllanD]

I use A4 ring-binder files and polythene neg storage pages. One thing I found was never to store contact sheets in the same file as negatives. This reduces the wear and tear on the negative storage pages. The contact sheets in one file are cross indexed to the negative sheets in the other.

 

[Gerald Koch]

Let me add my agreement that one should never discard a negative. I too have discovered negatives decades old that I thought were worthless at the time they were taken.