Do you keep negatives after you've scanned them?

Getting ready to scan a few thousand negatives (woohoo! Par-tay!). It's going to be a chore, as most of them have suffered horrendous color shifts/fading over the years.

So do you keep the negatives, or do you toss them after they've been digitized?

I have so far. But I'm a bit of a pack rat.

part of it is, I'm not yet 100% happy with the quality that they were scanned at (many years ago), so I want to re-scan at a better resolution at some point.

I keep mine. I've had a few occasions where I've rescanned and got a better result (mis-fed, dust, scanned as jpeg instead of TIF, etc.).

I'm also a pack rat, and part of me was hoping that digitizing would give me a reason to thin things out a bit.

KirkS518 wrote in post #16222977
I'm also a pack rat, and part of me was hoping that digitizing would give me a reason to thin things out a bit.

Heh!

The good news is that once you've scanned them you can pack them up and store them! No clutter needed!

'Course, when I say that I'm ignoring the many many negatives that are, well, somewhere but I don't have an idea where, since it's been, well, 20 years or so since I dealt with them!

Negatives? What are those?

Yes.

Definitely, they don't take up much room and you never know if you might need to scan them at a higher resolution a few years later.

I have more faith in the continued longevity of my stored negatives, than I have that my digital data will always be available to me. If you stored digital data on ST506 harddrives 20 years ago, just try to find an ST506 controller that will plug into the computer bus that is on motherboards today so that you can even get to that stored digital data.