While the negatives have a small commercial value, it's the prints which I'm emotionally attached to.
My important prints were all made at a specific time and have a particular meaning to me. Sure I could make new prints from the negatives, but they wouldn't be [ii]the same[/i] prints: they would be replacements. That's why I'd save the important prints first.
Here's a real example. I gave a print to my father a few years ago (a photo made in a railway carriage that he used to travel in as a boy). After he died I hunted high and low to find it, and finally found it last week. I've still got the negative and could make a new print, but it wouldn't be that print. Does that make sense? |