storage issues

magicbastarder

of old school film and prints rather than of digital shots.

i was recently tidying the house up after months of work on it - i managed to keep the dust off the negs and slides, but ended up with a problem i hadn't thought of. i've lots of strips of slides stored in those clear plastic film sheets, in ring binders, but they ended up being stored flat during - and the plastic stuck to the film. i assume it was whatever mositure there might have been in the air was possibly to blame.
anyway, the plastic pulled away easily enough but the slides have been marked, almost like drying marks.

i assume these will wash out, but has anyone else had issues like this?
i once also had problems with negs in paper holders getting water damage from a leak, but thankfully they weren't shots i was particularly worried about.

Anouilh

Painful...


A search for


film negatives stuck to plastic how to wash


led to this site, among many others:

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t238545-how-best-to-clean-old-negatives.html

The experts should be able to advise on whether or not Photoflow causes negatives to become cloudy when used in hard water areas.
Distilled water is recommended.

http://forums.photographyreview.com/archive/index.php/t-25878.html

Another search gave some good advice:

use photoflow to clean negatives

Fajitas!

They should be able to wash off easily, it's happened to myself before, and a couple of hours with some warm water did the trick. As you know yourself, be careful not to wash them roughly, even if it means letting them dry and come back to them again.

DaireQuinlan

magicbastarder wrote: »

of old school film and prints rather than of digital shots.

i was recently tidying the house up after months of work on it - i managed to keep the dust off the negs and slides, but ended up with a problem i hadn't thought of. i've lots of strips of slides stored in those clear plastic film sheets, in ring binders, but they ended up being stored flat during - and the plastic stuck to the film. i assume it was whatever mositure there might have been in the air was possibly to blame.
anyway, the plastic pulled away easily enough but the slides have been marked, almost like drying marks.

i assume these will wash out, but has anyone else had issues like this?
i once also had problems with negs in paper holders getting water damage from a leak, but thankfully they weren't shots i was particularly worried about.

I wonder will they wash out. If the slides got sufficiently moist that the emulsion swelled then they might have gotten squished. I had a problem a while back where I, in a fit of frustration trying to get still damp negatives into the sleeves, just layed them flat between two sheets and stuck a book on top of them. When I went to scan them they were stuck to the plastic and when I peeled them off there were visibly flattened smoothed areas in the emulsion where they'd been stuck to the plastic. These showed up quite clearly when scanning ...

magicbastarder

had the areas flattened actually changed?
i tried scanning some of my affected slides - the only issue really was the transition between the areas which had been affected and those which hadn't stuck, which come up as relatively faint lines.

DaireQuinlan

magicbastarder wrote: »

had the areas flattened actually changed?
i tried scanning some of my affected slides - the only issue really was the transition between the areas which had been affected and those which hadn't stuck, which come up as relatively faint lines.

Yeah that was what happened to mine as well. I didn't actually try soaking them again for a while and leaving them to dry, that might plump up the emulsion again or something ...

-edit-
This one here shows it fairly clearly, about a third from the top, that curved area was either the stuck bit or the not stuck bit, so the two bits above and below that were, uh, whatever that bit wasn't ...