This week we conquered the old, odd negatives dilema by using two things that we can use a lot. Don't you love when things you buy have many uses instead of just one or two?  The combination of Flip-Pal and Corel PaintShop solved the old, odd negatives issue but both will be used over and over in our family history project.

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Today's blog is another video!  Have you found some old, odd-sized negatives? Curious as to what's on them?  Here's how to see them and then digitize them. Click here!

Every day in this family history project is a new adventure!  While scanning negatives using the Wolverine, I ran across some negatives that were a size I’d never dealt with before.  From what I have researched, they are from medium format film. Yet there are 4 different variations!  Just in one of my grandfather’s boxes of negatives, I ran across some that are:

6.5mm x 10.5mm (2.5 x 4.25 inches)
5.5mm x 8.5mm (2.25 x 3.5 inches)
5.5mm x 5.5mm (2.25 x 2.25 inches) and
strips of 4 frames per strip, each frame measuring 4mm x 3mm (1.75 x 1.25 inches)

These are all approximate sizes but none are used in our modern consumer world.  The wonderful thing is that they are hidden gems! They contain old pictures from 1919 to 1954 many I had never seen before.  Check to see if you have any of these old, odd negatives and on Wednesday, I’ll show how I digitized each one.