Film storage

[DREW WILEY]

Ziplok bags aren't reliable at all in a freezer for very long. I'd rather take a couple of grocery store poly bags, double them up, and knot them. But if you want to heat-tack poly bags, including Ziplocks, without any way for moist air to get in, use your teflon drymount tacking iron on its high setting and a strip of release paper to keep it from sticking to the plastic. A strip tacker like the one shown by Roger is more convenient; but ideally find the kind used for freeze-dried food with an integral air vacuum feature, available from kitchen stores and so forth. They'll have the correct kinds of poly bags too.

 

[Roger Thoms]

Yes, a vacuum unit may be in my future, but the ones that will do bigger boxes of sheet film and paper get pricey quick.

Roger

 

[DREW WILEY]

I once did whole hermetic encapsulations for sake of long term display of big prints in damp areas. Special materials, a lot of work, and certainly pricey, but it worked. That was simply an option I offered at a premium, if better display conditions were not available. But it was a deluxe form of presentation, not just some thin bonded plastic overlay film, which is fairly ho-hum routine these days, and sure looks the part.