Negative Storage Sleeves for 8x10.

Keith Tapscott. · Aug 24, 2008

Does anyone know where to buy some storage sleeves for 8x10 inch size negatives in the UK?

phaedrus · Aug 24, 2008

My 8x10 negs have always fit perfectly into clear polypropylene A4 ringbinder sheats.

Tom Kershaw · Aug 24, 2008

Keith,

I recently purchased 'printfile' branded 10x8 negative sleeves, from the same series as my 120 and 135 sleeves.

Available at www.silverprint.co.uk

Martin Aislabie · Aug 24, 2008

Secol - sell direct - http://www.secol.co.uk/

Martin

brian steinberger · Aug 24, 2008

Keith,

Are you looking for just sleeves for 8x10 negatives or sleeves to fit into a 3-ring binder? I have a 100 pack of sleeves that I purchased by accident a few weeks ago that I'm not going to use. They are just sleeves. I can send them to you. Let me know

Brian

Dave Miller · Aug 25, 2008

I also use clear A4 ring binder sheets. They remain easy to see, and most importantly easy to remove and reinsert, which isn't always the case with specialist negative sleeves.

gerryyaum · Aug 25, 2008

phaedrus said:
My 8x10 negs have always fit perfectly into clear polypropylene A4 ringbinder sheats.

archival?

2F/2F · Aug 25, 2008

"archival?"

So people can have your perfectly archived film after you are dead?

I used to work for a museum exhibit prep company. Practically none of the film I personally handled (about 70,000 total, almost all ranging from the oughts through the thirties, and also the original color transparencies of Ernst Haas) were in anything better than paper mailing envelopes or cardboard boxes when we first got them, and they always were printable and over all in good condition archivally speaking, although there was often physical damage. Prints dry mounted half a century or longer ago, on board that is nowhere near "archival" by today's standards (often they seem just a small step above cardboard) look perfect.

My point is simply that preventing physical damage will be the single most important factor in making your negs usable well into the future. Any sort of new plastic sleeve, whether "archival" or not, will be far better than many of the ways *truly* classic film has been stored. If you find something that is just perfect, go for it without obsessing over what is archival and what is not. In 50 years, when we are all dead, people will be wondering why on Earth we were so stupid to be putting our negs into such materials, given the new archival technology available to them. However, I'm sure our negs will be fine, on the less than one percent chance that anyone will even care to do anything with them.

Dave Miller · Aug 25, 2008

gerryyaum said:
archival?

Long enough for me to get my other foot in the grave.

Keith Tapscott. · Aug 25, 2008

The Print-File 8x10 negative storage sleeves should be OK for my requirements.
Thanks to everyone who replied.

brian steinberger · Aug 25, 2008

Keith,

I sleeves I have are the Print-File 8x10 storage sleeves. Let me know if you'd like them. It's a pack of 100

Jon Shiu · Aug 26, 2008

The print file 8x10 pages are a bit tight to insert the negs in. I prefer polypro sheet protectors, which are larger.

Jon

gerryyaum · Aug 26, 2008

2F/2F said:
"archival?"

So people can have your perfectly archived film after you are dead?

I used to work for a museum exhibit prep company. Practically none of the film I personally handled (about 70,000 total, almost all ranging from the oughts through the thirties, and also the original color transparencies of Ernst Haas) were in anything better than paper mailing envelopes or cardboard boxes when we first got them, and they always were printable and over all in good condition archivally speaking, although there was often physical damage. Prints dry mounted half a century or longer ago, on board that is nowhere near "archival" by today's standards (often they seem just a small step above cardboard) look perfect.

My point is simply that preventing physical damage will be the single most important factor in making your negs usable well into the future. Any sort of new plastic sleeve, whether "archival" or not, will be far better than many of the ways *truly* classic film has been stored. If you find something that is just perfect, go for it without obsessing over what is archival and what is not. In 50 years, when we are all dead, people will be wondering why on Earth we were so stupid to be putting our negs into such materials, given the new archival technology available to them. However, I'm sure our negs will be fine, on the less than one percent chance that anyone will even care to do anything with them.

I get your point, I just think that I should do what I can to keep the work in as good as condition as I can. I feel the work is important so to make archival prints and to store my negs as well as I can makes sense to me. Seems silly to me to spend your life doing something you feel is important and spend 100s of thousands of dollars on gear film etc...and then put the end result in something that is lower quality. If your going to all the effort to make the images you might as well finish the deed and do the best you can to store the stuff (negs/final prints). All of this is within reason, we should each do the best we can, it just seems wrong to me to cut corners in the endgame of your work.

gerryyaum · Aug 26, 2008

Dave Miller said:
Long enough for me to get my other foot in the grave.

haha...ok

hmm what if someday your work is hanging in the MOMA...they take your negs print your work and your REBORN...back from the dead so to speak.

Negative Storage Sleeves for 8x10.

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