pictures and silver content

[knibloe]

My father-in-law passed away a month ago. His second wife just sent the family pictures over to our house. There are 10-12 big boxes of them. Many are duplicates, other have been ruined over the years of storage. My wife is sorting them out and throwing a lot of them away. In the future, we may scan the ones that she keeps and get rid of the originals.

To that end, I thought that I heard that photos contain silver. It that true? If so, how much and would it be feasible to remove it?

[Corsair]

My father-in-law passed away a month ago. His second wife just sent the family pictures over to our house. There are 10-12 big boxes of them. Many are duplicates, other have been ruined over the years of storage. My wife is sorting them out and throwing a lot of them away. In the future, we may scan the ones that she keeps and get rid of the originals.

To that end, I thought that I heard that photos contain silver. It that true? If so, how much and would it be feasible to remove it?

According to a PDF published by Kodak (around 1998 looks like):

Processed color
photographic films and papers
(negatives, transparencies, and
prints) do not contain appreciable
amounts of silver.

DYODD but that's just what I found from Google.

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/corp/environment/kes/pubs/pdfs/J210.pdf

[Corsair]

And I'm sorry for your family's loss, of course.

[messymessy]

Film used to have silver, but perhaps only X-ray film. A guy around here used to sell machines to recover silver from film. I think he used to sell mostly to hospitals. Took a bunch of film to justify the machine.

[knibloe]

And I'm sorry for your family's loss, of course.

Thank you.