Conrad J. Obregon
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2024
I understand that despite the many benefits of digital photography, there is a movement around to shoot using old-fashioned film. I once was a very serious film photographer and still maintain a large archive of film negatives and positives. Let me describe my practice with regard to these.After a roll of film was developed it was cut into smaller strips about 9 inches wide. A contact sheet was made of these negatives. The negatives were then placed into archival glassine negative sleeves which were then put into small archival paper folders. The folders were marked with an indexing number. The folders then went into an archival box. The contact sheets were placed in a notebook and the sheets were marked with the corresponding index number.Today with digital, I import my images into Lightroom, give them an index number and keywords to retrieve them. I back up the image files to separate disk drives.The film protectors in this kit are acid free polypropylene and you slide each strip of negative into a sleeve on a page. There are two different sized protectors, 35 mm and 120 film. The protectors go into a polyurethane binder. (These materials are considered archival.) The binder can be zipped up and easily transported.Retrieval can be a problem. I suggest the photographer still make a contact sheet. The pages in the binder have no place to mark the contents so I suggest you develop some sort of indexing system to use with the binder.By the way, if you still insist upon shooting film, I suggest you find some way to digitize your most important work, both for safe keeping and for ease of retrieval,If this storage kit had been available in the old days, it might well have been my solution to saving my images. It certainly takes up less room than all those folders and boxes.
Marilyn
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2024
Ordered this so I could organize a box full of negatives that have various family photos on them...some of them which date back to the 60s-70s. Up to now they have been either loose in the box or in non archival paper sleeves, so I wanted to get something a little better and more organized for storing them.This item works out perfectly! It's large so it has a lot of capacity...it's a nice leatherette looking album that is easy to use and keeps all different size negatives in it. The pages are nice quality plastic with protective compartments that fit just about any size negative you might have. It's binder style so it's easy to flip through, as well.This is a really, REALLY nice kit that is perfect for preserving negatives and in turn, your family memories...and gives you one easy way to keep them together to pass on to the next generations. For the price, it's a fantastic bargain. I highly recommend it!