In a message dated 1/20/01 8:46:33 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< Most_ photographers don't put very much effort into storing and protecting
their negatives. I'm not saying they leave them lying exposed on the kitchen
floor, but I'd bet your "1 out of 100" figure would be applicable as well to
those who "store their negatives in as archival a location as possible." >>
I used to. Now I save only the negatives the client chooses and pitch the
rest. Pretty cavalier but damned efficient.
Negative storage is not near the hassle it was for me when I shot hundreds of
rolls of 35mm. Archiving 35mm was also a pain until I began the triage
system I now use on my 67 negs.
Besides, how likely is it that my (or anyones) negatives, no matter how good
they are, are worth a hoot to someone else? Since I'm no longer starry-eyed,
thinking the world would discover my talents soon enough, and then my work
would spread throughout imagedom and scads of money would pour down on
me...NOT; only the good family stuph and my commercial negs get any care at
all.
No more rolls of negs in more packing boxes than I care to remember, no more
hunching over a light table weeding them out. I do my neg triage at the lab,
on their light table, use their cutters to separate the keepers from the
dreck. I have *no* idea how much I've saved by not havingto buy eolls of
sleeves-etc.
I know I'd be more brutal if I shot a digital camera.
Mafud
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