I use sleeves and binders for all of my negatives, as well. I have been scanning and scanning and scanning for the past year it seems! I use an Epson flatbed scanner, and it has done pretty well, at least for my purposes of scrapping. I've had some pages printed using these older images, and I've been pleased with the quality. Even the images from the 110 film (those are SO TINY!) have come out well. I want to have them all scanned, organized, and backed-up. I am planning to keep the physical copies, though, because I know that crazy things can happen and I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket. It has been a slow, tedious process, but scrapping these older memories has been such a valuable, rewarding, healing experience for me. I have some more to go, yet, and then I want to tackle some slides from my husband's childhood that my FIL gave me. He lost most of the photos and other memorabilia in a fire a few years ago, so the ones he gave me to scan are pretty darn precious.
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