Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Arturo Here is a posting of mine from awhile back re neg storage. Tina's method sounds great for retrieval, especially with many thousands of frames. For more "intermediate" size neg collections, I find that the method below works fairly well and is simple enough that I actually keep up with it: <<<<< Contact sheets w/ 8x10 and even 8 1/2x11 always look so *cramped*. Also, they give you a landscape format on 6 frame negative strips, when portrait format is ideal for filing in a three ring binder. My solution to the size problem is to use 11x14 paper and cut 4 /12 inches off the 14 inch length. The resulting 9 1/2 by 11 inch paper is wide enough for 6 frame neg strips (portrait format) and long enough for the occasional 7th strip when you get 37 shots on a roll. I three-hole punch the contact sheet on the 11 inch right-hand side. Then when I open my binder, the contact sheet is on the left and the neg sheet (7 strips of 6 frames per strip) is aligned on the right exactly like the contacts. Once filed like this, contacts and negs are always in order and very simple to review. I have used this system since working in Europe with that wonderful 24x30cm size. It has been a very simple and efficient way of filing, and I hope all this info will benefit some LUGer out there with a pile of unsorted negs and contacts.>>>>> Gary Todoroff