Processed film storage

[zhaowei]

Hi, I'm relatively new to film photography and now that I have shot about 20 rolls I'm wondering how I can best store my films.

I leave them in the sleeves that they come with after processing and put them in my dry cabinet for now.

But last week I bought a folder and clear plastic sleeves from Ruby Photo to better organise my film. Unfortunately, I find it difficult to slot my film into the plastic sleeves as they are very sticky. I have given up trying for now, cos I'm afraid I'll damage my film in the process.

How do you guys store and organise your film? Are the paper sleeves also sold at Ruby better? (thinking of exchanging)

 

[Royale With Cheese]

Hi, I'm relatively new to film photography and now that I have shot about 20 rolls I'm wondering how I can best store my films.

I leave them in the sleeves that they come with after processing and put them in my dry cabinet for now.

But last week I bought a folder and clear plastic sleeves from Ruby Photo to better organise my film. Unfortunately, I find it difficult to slot my film into the plastic sleeves as they are very sticky. I have given up trying for now, cos I'm afraid I'll damage my film in the process.

How do you guys store and organise your film? Are the paper sleeves also sold at Ruby better? (thinking of exchanging)

Hmmm... Am not sure about the plastic ones.

I am using the paper ones from ruby, 50cents a piece I believe. All my films go into the sleeves, & I number them for easy reference. The scanned pictures on my computer is numbered same as the sleeves as well, so that I can easily pick out the sleeves for re-scanning should I need to do so.

I use a clear folder with 200 pages. Each page has 10 sleeves in it.

 

[enivre]

I use a clear folder with 200 pages. Each page has 10 sleeves in it.

I tried that too, doesn't the clear folder get really really thick?

 

[zhaowei]

Hmmm... Am not sure about the plastic ones.

I am using the paper ones from ruby, 50cents a piece I believe. All my films go into the sleeves, & I number them for easy reference. The scanned pictures on my computer is numbered same as the sleeves as well, so that I can easily pick out the sleeves for re-scanning should I need to do so.

I use a clear folder with 200 pages. Each page has 10 sleeves in it.

Sounds like a vote for the paper ones. They cost half the price of the plastic ones, so makes economic sense too. I hope they will allow for exchange...

 

[Yoricko]

The paper one is more suspectible to moisture, so keep it dry, else the water might stick on the film when it dries up and you're gonna end up with screwed up negatives.

I simply just dump them in a drawer ... got a whole chunk of it.

 

[azzurri]

I store my film the paper sleeves too and keep them in a document box. Need to get around labelling them though.