@moragperkins I always get mine back for archival. Digital files could get lost or corrupted, or maybe I'll want a better scan in the future!

@moragperkins my local lab give me funny looks when I don't ask for scans or prints when I get colour developed.
I *only* want the negs!

@moragperkins hahaha, hard same. Sometimes I don't even manage to open the envelopes, just into the negatives drawer void they go

@moragperkins who just doesn’t take their negatives with them when they get the prints….? So odd. I learned a long time ago that negs are priceless. Just takes one studio flood! Also, there are countless ways to print any given negative, and over the years I’ve gone back and reprinted a few very differently!

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LOL, my friend Andreas got a small mention in this article (he cannot bear to throw customers negatives out)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/arts/film-photography-negatives.html

@moragperkins @grechaw 😂

@moragperkins I always take the negatives back. Otherwise, I won't be able to make darkroom prints

@moragperkins Petapixel and their hot takes. I'm not even surprised.

@moragperkins a crime.

@moragperkins Negs in a big box are still negs. Negs in the trash are just trash.

@moragperkins When I send out my film to a lab to get dev'ed Ive always had my them returned, even ones Ive done myself Ive kept (though when I first started there was some shots I cut off & threw out 🫣). I do plan to digitize all the shots I've done eventually, I got alooot of 35mm (86 pages,~2700 shots) & just started with 6x9 (6 pages so far ~41 shots).

There have been a couple labs Ive seen where they said "you have to tell us to return your negatives, we dont automatically return them" 🙄

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Hahaha I have the digital equivalent with all my raw files just in a big folder called “Camera Backup”