In a world where a phone can capture hundreds of images in a single afternoon at no cost, choosing to shoot film seems almost perverse. Each frame costs money, the roll holds only a few dozen exposures, and you cannot see the result until days later. Yet these very limitations are the reason many photographers […]
Storing, Scanning, and Preserving Your Film Negatives for the Long Term
A photograph captured on film exists in two forms: the physical negative and any prints or digital files made from it. Of these, the negative is the irreplaceable original, the master from which everything else flows. Yet many photographers focus all their attention on shooting and almost none on what happens to those negatives afterward. […]