Best way to store negs?

[ch1]

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I buy film, C41 usually Kodak Hi Def 400 color. I shoot a lot of pictures, but try to be thoughtful. Send the exposed cassettes into Kodak. For $4 they make negatives and scan photos onto my website. Bingo!! I download the ones I want to publish/print/save, into Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0. I clean them up, maybe take out the color, add a yellow filter, whatever. Then I publish on my website/ Rangefinder Forum and/or print. save everything on a second hard drive. Now I have three sites for each photo. BTW Kodak allows you to save unlimited photos on its site for free. See my gallery.

Sounds cool for WF purposes provided this - do they send you the negs for physical storage backup? You didn't make that clear in your post.

EDIT: Oh, and what level of scan do they do? I scan my negs in RAW or TIFF. If they are uploading JPEGs - you've lost a lot already....

 

[kshapero]

Sounds cool for WF purposes provided this - do they send you the negs for physical storage backup? You didn't make that clear in your post.

EDIT: Oh, and what level of scan do they do? I scan my negs in RAW or TIFF. If they are uploading JPEGs - you've lost a lot already....

Yes they send back the negs, but alas they scan in Jpeg. But when I get the money I'll get a film scanner and do it myself.

 

[ch1]

Yes they send back the negs, but alas they scan in Jpeg. But when I get the money I'll get a film scanner and do it myself.

You might then want to check out your local photo developer. I only order negs (cut and sleeved) for about $3. The developer does offer a CD-option (JPEG quality). Not sure what the add-on cost is for that - but you can get everything in an hour or so.