Negative storage- keep every strip, or individual frames?

[GarageBoy]

So, do you guys keep all your negative strips, or just the keepers?

 

[Bill Clark]

Strips.

6 frames per strip.

6 works for my contact printer and fit nicely in a regular envelope.

 

[splitimageview]

On rolls I develop they are stored in a poly sleeve in full strips. Several rolls will fit in in a small box, loosely coiled. Since my scanner will scan an entire roll this is efficient for me. This means the keepers and the losers of course. 🙂

 

[Oren Grad]

Everything.

 

[DNG]

Every Frame in 6 frame strips... with a Contact sheet of my computer edited frames in a hanging sleeve that holds both!

I don't wet-print. I scan them all at 3200 dpi (55mb file) (V700) and edit the best frames.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Every strip, every roll.

 

[Keith]

I do keep every roll of fillm I've shot in strips of six ... though sometimes when I look at the digital scans of some of my early rolls I wonder why I'm keeping them! 😀

 

[arseniii]

I used to keep everything in strips of six ( because 6 is the max frame count my film scanner would take).
For the past year I've been going through my archive and cut single good images. The rest goes to trash.
I keep all my images of family/friends regardless.

A.

 

[Contarama]

I keep all my negatives stored in a cardboard box in sleeves and that within envelopes. My digital images however I am concerned about! 🙂

 

[dbarnes]

To me, the small space saving from cutting negs out individually is more than outweighed by the fiddly inconvenience of dealing with single negs.

YMMV.

 

[swoop]

Have you ever worked in a darkroom? Dealing with cut individual frames is almost impossible.

 

[Fawley]

There is nothing sacred about lousy shots are negatives IMO, and everyone has them. If after scanning, a negative strip has no images of any value (good shots, historical or documentary value, family) the strip gets tossed. I catalogue my negs according to strip number. On some rolls I have only kept one strip.

 

[Chris101]

I keep 'em all, but in 5 frame strips, and then put those in PrintFile pages, and then put those in 3 ring notebooks, and then put those in dust tight boxes. I have all of my negatives going back to 1979.

 

[Tom A]

I cut them to 6 frames strips - filed in Printfile 6 by 7 strips. Using reloadable cassettes I tend to get 37-38 frames. Each file page is numbered and camera/lens/film/developer noted on it.
My files go back to the late 60's, with some missing (moving often and long distance resulted in loss of boxes of filepages!).
What I like to do sometime is to go through negative files that go back 20-30 years. The frames that were marked for printing are usually OK - but you also find that what you rejected then - now has some images on them, maybe long forgotten - but almost takes on a historical interest.
At the latest count - about 10 000 rolls filed and annotated and some 1000-1500 rolls unsorted in binders. These are all black/white - then there are boxes and Carousel trays filled with Kodachromes!!!!!!!

 

[Overkill-F1]

I keep 'em all, but in 5 frame strips, and then put those in PrintFile pages, and then put those in 3 ring notebooks, and then put those in dust tight boxes. I have all of my negatives going back to 1979.

Yup, I keep them all, just like this ^
Only thing is mine go back to 73 or so.
...Terry

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Have you ever worked in a darkroom? Dealing with cut individual frames is almost impossible.

They're hard to scan too!

 

[Michael Markey]

Strips stored in Arrowfile compact ring binders ,five negs to a strip.
Numbered with camera and lens recorded .

If there is a run of duff frames I`ll discard that strip.

Lots of Leica trays filled with Kodachromes dating from the early seventies.

 

[Photo_Smith]

Keep everything, that way you can look back at your older work and chart your progress.

I have every negative back to the late 1970's cut into 6's in Kenro sleeves and archive binders which have index cards with subjects.

Some early colour negs processed in a mini lab are in fours-they go in six sleeves.

Cutting into singles is a very bad idea, it means that say a Fuji Frontier can't print your work without stopping, putting in a manual mask-they may charge you extra fro that also they are easier to lose and damage–if you must cut into singles put them in slide mounts.

 

[E__WOK]

I cut them to 6 frames strips - filed in Printfile 6 by 7 strips. Using reloadable cassettes I tend to get 37-38 frames. Each file page is numbered and camera/lens/film/developer noted on it.
My files go back to the late 60's, with some missing (moving often and long distance resulted in loss of boxes of filepages!).
What I like to do sometime is to go through negative files that go back 20-30 years. The frames that were marked for printing are usually OK - but you also find that what you rejected then - now has some images on them, maybe long forgotten - but almost takes on a historical interest.
At the latest count - about 10 000 rolls filed and annotated and some 1000-1500 rolls unsorted in binders. These are all black/white - then there are boxes and Carousel trays filled with Kodachromes!!!!!!!

How much volume does 10K rolls take up?

 

[Schlapp]

Sorry to differ; I keep most but not all. I shoot too much to keep it all.