How many unprocessed rolls do you have?

3 weeks ago around 20 rolls of B+W 35mm and a couple of rolls of 120. (half of which were 12 months since taken)
However broke my ankle 3 weeks ago and now I have two rolls left to dev. At least something good came out of it!
 
I don't usually let film get significantly backed up. I use a two reel tank. If it's something I shoot frequently- Neopan 400/Tri X/Plus X/TMZ, I'll wait until I have four rolls and dev it using that old PJ trick.

Old PJ trick?
 
I've got a half dozen rolls of 35mm, a couple rolls of 120, some Minox film, and some sheet film that needs to be processed. Mostly B&W. Time to get busy in the darkroom.

Sadly, I just found two rolls of Kodachrome 64 shot two years ago that I somehow lost track of. I've missed the boat on those forever.
 
When I shot film regularly I also regularly had perhaps dozens of unprocessed films sitting in drawers or unfinished rolls sitting in cameras.

The most usual problem being I did not want to process half a roll and waste the rest.

So I left them in situ in cameras till I could do so without wasting the exposures on crap images that I would take just for the sake of getting them finished. Usually this meant I would eventually forget what was on what rolls. This I have to say was one of my reasons for moving to digital once good quality digital cameras became available at reasonable prices. I could shoot more at effectively at zero incremental cost per image and I did not have to wait to process individual images to view them. This had the added advantage that by linking shooting to feedback by being able to review results effectively immediately I became a better image maker.

As for scanning in some ways that was not so bad. Partly for the above reason and partly because I only ever scanned a small selection of the better images in any event.
 
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