Beer or Film?

Beer or Film?

  • Fresh film (TRI-X, Agfa, Ilford, Fuji, Efke etc)

    Votes: 32 34.8%

  • Beer (Nectar of the gods)

    Votes: 26 28.3%

  • Food (Necessary evil)

    Votes: 48 52.2%

  • Exposed film (Haven't got round to processing it yet)

    Votes: 6 6.5%
  • Total voters
    92
We have a smallish fridge/freezer, so I only get a shelf in each for film. I still manage to stuff about 30 rolls of film in the freezer and about 90 rolls of film in the fridge. With my recent Neopan 1600 purchase, I now also have about 45 rolls of film that have to sit outside at room temperature.

So, no space in my fridge for beer at all. But, the local convenience store is only about one minute's walk from my apartment and they always have a fridge full of beer :D
 
The local supermarket has perfectly nice, cool areas for storing food. The film supplier is not really within walking distance, hence a freezer with about 2 miles of film in it.
Food is freely available a couple of blocks away - as for beer, there are 11+ restaurants and bars within a 3 block radius.
 
After I took up bout 1/3 of our freezer with film, my wife suggested i pick up freezer for our garage. That one now has a massive amount of expired film in it.

Unfortunately I didn't think about the feasibility of shooting at iso 25-50 in the fall/winter/spring in Seattle. I probably have two years worth of summer play shooting in there now.
 
Another vote for the two-fridge solution -- though ours contains more wine than beer, plus Perrier and San Pellegrino, plus Breton cidre bouché. We have two BIG Bosch larger fridges in the stone flag room (a former kitchen, an anteroom to the darkroom, so named for its stone flag floor) plus a small fridge in the kitchen. And a big chest freezer (in the stone flag room again), but there's not a lot of film in that.

Cheers,

R.
 
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Tom A said:
The local supermarket has perfectly nice, cool areas for storing food. The film supplier is not really within walking distance, hence a freezer with about 2 miles of film in it.
Food is freely available a couple of blocks away - as for beer, there are 11+ restaurants and bars within a 3 block radius.
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Tom, I think I remember seeing a photo that you posted in another thread sometime back where you had all of that film stored in your freezer. It was truely an amazing image! Definetely something that I hope for one day.

If I had my way (meaning bottom line: more $$) I would have that separate fridge/freezer that Keith suggested filled with all of my favorites. Especially TRI-X, HP5, TMX 3200, Fuji ProH, Kodak NC, FP4 bursting at the seams. I have tried to do some street photography full of beer, but I found it attracts unwanted attention.

I have some friends who compare plasmas (yep, definetely no class I know) but I find myself somewhat excluded because all I yearn for is that fridge full of film and beer. I have contemplated buying one of the kind that bottle shops use to fill with beer, but it was too expensive.

Thanks everyone for contributing,

Cheers
 
Warm beer is worse than warm film.... however hungry kids are even worse, so mostly food (and there are a beer shop with ice cold beer 150 m from my door)
 
I store beer in the fridge. I'm completely skeptical of the need for storing film in the fridge or freezer - tho I only buy 200 feet of film at a time, live in a temperate climate, and have central air-conditioning in Summer.
 
I voted before reading the post-- woops...
The poll asks what takes up the most space, while the post asks your *priority* for the space.
Exposed film unfortunately takes up the most space, while I would prefer beer.
 
I got my small film fridge for the cost of moving it out of a college dorm. I recommend offering end-of-semester students the same deal.
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I did vote for beer simply because it was listed as the nectar of the gods and I respect that.
 
Nothing beats a cold dark beer like Guinness when you have been out for hours shooting and walking... But I cannot drink and shoot, my pre-shoot drink is strong black tea. I don't drink coffee, it makes me take lots of pictures which later i find i don't really like.
 
I have to admit, over the last few years, I've frequently had much more film than anything else in my fridge. I've been on a shooting rampage lately, so the ratio is equalizing, but that's sure to change once I've gotten low enough on film.
 
Beer makes my snaps look better. More beer = better looking photo's. Beer even makes everyone else's photos look better so it's a winner all round!
 
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