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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
06-26-2017, 08:08 AM
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When you shoot film, the main question is not how you scan them for archive but how you physically STORE THE NEGATIVES, because THEY ARE the archival material.
This is why the first question when you put your film in for development anywhere is "Do you give me the negatives back?" If the answer is no, you WALK AWAY.
Mark me down immediately as one of the disagree-ers. IMHO the only negatives you should dump after copying are very ancient ones shot on the very old, unsafe nitrate base (which can catch fire with little provocation and disastrous results, as dramatized in the motion picture "Cinema Paradiso"). Those need to be destroyed by burning them in a controlled environment, but it should be noted that in the aforementioned movie the danger with nitrate-base film is that one of the known ignition risks was feeding them through a projector!!! (This IIRC is why the next generation of emulsions - particularly that intended for moving pictures - was sold as "safety film").
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