I am working on a long put off project of getting a bunch of pictures put into albums. Mostly shot by my dad, from when I was a baby up until the advent of cheap digital photography. The problem I am running into is finding albums that can have pages for photos of different sizes put in them. Most of the pictures are 3.5x5 for older shots, then switching to 4x6 for newer ones. But there will also be a smattering of 5x7, 8x10, and oddball sizes. Since I want to get them in somewhat chronological order, different albums for each size is a no-go.
I have a couple of Pioneer albums that are set up for 3.5" x 5" photos, but can't find pages for them for other sizes. I have some nice scrapbooks, too, but I really don't want to put pictures in them, as some of them have information written on the back, so I want to be able to remove them fairly easily, so sleeves are preferred. Not to mention the nice quality scrapbook photo pages are expensive.
Am I going to be stuck with buying 3-ring photo sheets, and binders to go with them, or is there an option my googling did not pick up on?
I haven't tried to organize photos in about 20 years, but looseleaf plastic binder sheets/sleeves was my preferred method. I mean, what choice do you have? Photo corners?
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
I suspect that binder sheets will be the solution, but just in case, I wanted to see if there were other options, since dedicated albums tend to look nicer on the shelf. Now that I think about it, maybe I should just start looking for some nice looking three ring binders.
This is B & H's best seller in photo albums. Looks pretty good, is expandable to a point, appears only to ideally accommodate 4" x 6" prints in landscape orientation.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/824778-REG/Pioneer_Photo_Albums_MP46_BL_300_Pocket_4x6_Photo_Album.html/qa
Yup, B&H was one of the places I checked. It's a decent album (The Pioneer ones I have are nice), but yeah, 4x6 only, and I could not find any sheets of different sizes.
I did find a binder that comes with a storage box. Might not go with that specific one, but I figure that may work to keep it from getting squeezed out of shape on a tight shelf.
