Smelly photos

Thoie

Odd request - hoping someone can help.

I've got about 700+ photos and negatives, mainly from the 80s and early 90s. None of the photos are "good" photos - they're mostly snapshots of family and friends, full of giant amounts of sentimental value. I rescued them from my parents attic recently. The majority are loose in plastic bags, a few are in old cheap photo albums (the type Spectra used give away). The problem is, they smell. They're in a wardrobe at the moment, and are making everything else in there smell as well.

99% of them have been scanned, in a fashion. There's a greenish tinge across a lot digital images. A lot of the digital images are marginally blurry (but the original photos probably weren't much better).

So, do I

a) dump the originals
b) try and treat the originals someway to stop them smelling (how, with what?)
c) send them somewhere to be professionally scanned and put to CD (looks like it would cost a fortune).
d) do some sort of magic batch conversion on the existing digital images to make them look better and then... leave them on my computer.

Any ideas?

melekalikimaka

had the same issue. I put them into show boxes, with one of those things ya put in tumble dryers to make the clothes smell nice, little cloth sheets, and left them in there for the foreseeable future, i saw that thats how a guy got rid of the smell from an old book so i did it with the photos, seems to be working

quilmore

zip-loc bags and/or what melekalikimaka said