Question about negatives

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by drc

I don't know if it's proper conservation technique or not, but I met another pretty famous Vogue photographer who kept his old film negatives in normal little manilla paper envelopes. I assume he knew what he was doing.

How "pretty" was this famous photographer?

I used to have a special 'slide and negative' attachment for a scanner - it worked great. This was eight years ago - I assume they have made a lot of progress since then.

I would go with David's recommendation, simply because you are going to want to control the finished product (sepia vs b&w, paper type, etc). I recently purchased some silver gel prints made from original glass negatives, and they do NOT look like vintage prints - as nice as they are, they still look sort of cheap and modern, and they cost enough that I doubt I'd do it again.