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Paging and Archiving

Paging and Archiving

The Professional - and archival - final touch to film processing

Your film negatives are invaluable and irreplaceable. We always return your film to you and never dispose of it, and nor should you! Your children or even your grandchildren may come to treasure those negatives in the decades to come.

After developing, scanning or printing your film is safely and archivally sleeved so that it can enjoy a storage life measured in decades... if not longer. We have multiple options for sleeving - depending on film format.
Paging and Archiving

• 35mm sleeving options include: standard perforated sleeving in strips of four. We can also cut in strips of 5 or 6 and page in Print File binder pages. 35mm can be left uncut and long sleeved.
• 120 film can be paged in Print File pages or left uncut.
• Minox/Spy film is cut into strips of 10 and sleeved.
• Large format sheet film is paged into appropriate Print File pages based on format size.
Paging and Archiving

It has become more common for film photographers to discard their negatives after scanning. We cannot stress enough how important it is to keep your negatives. Scans (and even prints) never have as much information as the original negatives. It is very shortsighted to get quick, low-res scans done at a lab and then opt to trash the negatives. What happens when you want large prints and those scans are too small?

Hard drives crash, Dropbox folders get deleted, prints get torn or lost. Keep your negatives as that tangible backup in case the worst happens to your digital archives.

Film is forever.

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