How do you store your negatives/slides?

[clayne]

Fold-lock polyester inserts for each negative strip into acid-free envelopes. Standard slide-in sleeves are asking for negative damage in a big way.

 

[stompyq]

Fold-lock polyester inserts for each negative strip into acid-free envelopes. Standard slide-in sleeves are asking for negative damage in a big way.

Clayne where can i buy these envelopes? I've been looking around and can't find any for my 35mm negative strips (and 4x5 slides)

 

[Roger Hicks]

I really don't like the idea of the ends of my negatives sticking out, if someone pushes the binder too far back it can crease and bend whatever sticks out... but yeah.. I agree.. $30 for a binder is a rip off. I can't believe that NO ONE besides photographers ever have use for oversized binders, they've gotta be available somewhere for less.

No it's not. A4 paper (210 x 297 mm) is the international standard for paper size, at least outside the United States.

Millions of people buy A4 binders, But very few indeed would buy (let us say) 245 x 297mm. It's not just the marginal cost of production of 10,000 units: it's the marginal cost of selling and distributing 10,000 units.

If $30 is more than you want to pay, the answer is easy. Don't buy it. But don't complain it's a rip-off. Just be grateful it's available at all to those who are prepared to buy it.

And don't say, 'If it were cheaper they would sell more'. Yes, they might. But equally, they might not. And the price would probably only drop $5 anyway -- with exactly the same number of people complaining that it's a rip-off...

Tashi delek,

R.