What to do with film negatives

A step-by-step guide on how to organize and archive film negatives for long-term storage and easy retrieval whenever they are needed.

Discover what you can do with old photos, including cheap or free DIY projects, repurposing ideas, and more.

How to Convert Film Negatives With a Digital Camera/Smartphone: This Instructable shows you the details of how to quickly convert film negatives into quality positives using a digital camera or smartphone. This method will allow you to digitize negatives at a rate of approximately one every 5-10 seconds, versus…

Film is used less and less for photography since the advent of digital cameras. And, even if you have old film negatives, you can convert them to digital. Once that is done, you don’t need the negatives any more. Recycle the negatives into trendy crafts instead of throwing them away.

@zenen_saneshige on Instagram: "what do you guys think the sun ☀️ did to my photos after 1 year? 🤔 added characteristics or just washed out colors? follow or whatever for part 2 I was fully aware when taping these negatives to a window that I would be ruining these. I had them scanned and stored digitally so the negative was useless to me besides being a physical copy of the photo. #film #filmphotography #35mmfilm #35mm #35mmphotography #kodakfilm #photographer #photography #filmmaking…

When shooting analogue, you will face the problem of having developed negatives lying around everywhere and piling up. You can throw them away, or put them somewhere in a dark corner and forget about them, but what if you want to scan them again or need them for any other reason? I do know I am pretty chaotic, but for my negatives I needed a method to keep it organized. So, let me show you how I archive my film negatives after the jump!

My latest project—blinds made from old film negatives (photo 2)

Our camera stickers are fun, but for something more personal you can make your own 35mm film stickers. All you need is a sticker making machine that

Unsure what to do with those boxes of old negatives and mounted slides? If you don’t do something now, then they are fading away. Click now to learn how you can easily start preserving your negatives and slides. vintage photo slides, family slides, slides to photos, negatives film, how to scan negatives film, negatives photography, family history, old photos

Learn how to care for and scan old photo negatives—and why they deserve a place in your collection.