What do you do with all those old negatives?

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The last couple of weeks I have been moving some bedrooms around in our house. The obvious problem with that is sorting through all the extra stuff that you accummalate over the years.

While I was doing this I came across two bags full of my film negatives from when I used a 35mm film camera. There’s loads of them along with a lot of old prints. I love looking back at old photographs they stir up some forgotten memories.

But what am I going to do with them all. In this day and age it’s all about clutter free living and keeping every thing to a minimum, so it would be nice to organise them so they can be easily accessible but also be able to tidy away again nicely. I’ll have to have a look around.

The other thing on my mind is making sure that these old photographs become timeless, and don’t degrade or become damaged which I’ve heard some early colour photos can do. So it makes sense to transfer them all to digital media because I can then use them. Just because I shoot on digital camera now doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy and use my old 35mm shots.

There’s no definitive break between the two different types of photography for me they should be able to blend together. And transferring all my old shots onto my computer whether I scan them in or get a lab to put them onto discs, then that will finally merge my two phases of photography.

Mandy

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