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filing my negatives (sexy, right?)

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

I spent the whole evening filing negatives into sleeve-sheets, last night. As of 10:00 this morning, I've filed 60 sheets worth of negatives—some 50 rolls, I'd estimate. I've pitched *a lot* of prints in the process, which feels good.

But it's clear now that the single binder and 100 sleeve-sheets that I bought are woefully insufficient for the job. I've cleared up maybe 1/6 of the giant box o' negatives that I have, and the worrying thing is I was clearing up the little packets that had prints in them. These all dated to my days before I had a slide/negative scanner. When I got my first scanner, I stopped getting prints made. So the bulk of what I have left are much smaller packets—those that don't contain any prints. So I imagine I might have another 400 rolls to sort out and file. Aaaigh!