film canisters

[Kat]

What do you guys do with your film canisters? I'm starting to accumulate a number, but I'd hate to throw them out considering that they're plastic and I'd like to be environment-friendly. Sometimes I use them to contain shampoo, etc. when I travel overnight and the like. Other uses you can suggest?

 

[Ash]

If you mean the actual film can's with the spool, ship them to me!!! 😀

if you mean the plastic canister... http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/filmrocket.html

 

[back alley]

coin holder for parking meter change

medication holder for day bag/camera bag etc.

q tip holder for work bench

holds small screws/batteries etc. on work bench

good for packing material when i'm out of styro peanuts

 

[dmr]

What do you guys do with your film canisters?

I throw out most of them, but they seem to grow like weeds.

Sometimes I use them to contain shampoo, etc. when I travel overnight and the like. Other uses you can suggest?

LOL! I'm on the road this week, and I'm just looking at one with moisturizer on the night stand at the hotel here. 🙂 The black ones that come with the Fuji 1600 seem to hold liquids and such better than all the others.

I just use them for odds and ends. I have thumb tacks in one, pins in another.

Since I started tearing apart cameras, I use them to hold those teeny screws and other small parts.

 

[rbiemer]

Mostly I give them back to the processor(I'm not doing my own) but I still seem to have a few empties around here. Years ago I found a set of salt and pepper tops to replace the regular tops. They have worked pretty well for camping etc. But that only takes care of two canisters. I use a couple more for small VFs I have. I keep one loaded with quarters in the camera bag(about $3 US total in there) just in case I need some change.
Way back when, I found they held just about the right amount of pot for a concert.🙄 Haven't needed that particular use for a while now, and most concerts these days won't let cameras in anyway.
Rob

 

[rpsawin]

My wife and I do rescue work with parrotts. The used plastic canisters make excellent toys. We puncture both top and bottom, run string though them and then fill the canister with bird snacks. They enjoy chewing them, making noise by banging them against their cage and of course finding the snacks.

Bob

 

[Crasis]

My wife and I do rescue work with parrotts. The used plastic canisters make excellent toys. We puncture both top and bottom, run string though them and then fill the canister with bird snacks. They enjoy chewing them, making noise by banging them against their cage and of course finding the snacks.

Bob

Well that was certainly ridiculously cute. Anyways, trying to shake that image out of my head. My fave plastic film cases are those that carry APX100. I love the texture and shape of them.

I would like some nice, reuseable leather cases for 35mm film. I saw one on ebay what.. 4 months ago? They were the size of a 35mm plastic film case, but leather. I so want one.

Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

 

[pesphoto]

my dog likes to eat them

 

[Ash]

yea I put a treat inside one once, and tried to get my jack russell to work out how to open it to get the treat. He threw it around the room a few times, then got bored an went in the garden.

 

[pesphoto]

Ash, my dog would just eat the whole cannister if there was a treat in it.
He's a 95 pound black lab who NEVER stops eating. Cat plays with the tops.(until the dog comes along to eat it)

 

[Ash]

We had a proper chubby black lab once. She was amazing, but fat as a pig. she was like the golden retreiver - "dont chew, just eat" 😀

 

[pesphoto]

We had a proper chubby black lab once. She was amazing, but fat as a pig. she was like the golden retreiver - "dont chew, just eat" 😀

so you know! hehe

 

[amateriat]

Generally, I take a bunch back to local labs, which – usually - happlily accept them for recycling (They're not accepted by NYC's Sanitation Dept. for recycling - wrong size).

But I've been more active in writing film manufacturers about coming up with alternative packaging for film. I wrote to Ilford a few years back about expanding their use of plasti-foil-wrapping for their 35mm film (as they do universally with MF film). At the time, they only sold 35mm film wrapped this way in special three-packs; now they do this with 50-roll packs of film (I have a box of HP5 which came this way, and most of their other films come this way as well). This is not only less wasteful, but, IMO, more convenient – I can pack more film in the same space without pulling the cassettes out of their containers, while stashing the wrappers away for proper disposal ("take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints", and so on). Probably a cost benefit to Ilford as well, making this a win-win-win.


Barrett

 

[Flyfisher Tom]

They can be lined up in your lawn or garden as a weed guard bed.

 

[Ash]

Or lined up as target practice with an air rifle or BB Gun? 😀

 

[PhotoJim]

I keep transparent (Foma) or translucent (Fuji, some Kodak) ones to use with my bulk film. (Translucent/transparent containers are easier to get through airport hand checks.)

The rest, I put into my recycling bin. If you don't have a recycling program where you live, your favourite camera store will probably happily recycle them for you.

 

[pesphoto]

shotglasses for my Jack Daniels

 

[Ash]

blasphemy! you should buy proper square-glass shots!

 

[pesphoto]

hey, usually i just drink from the bottle so it's a move up for me. hehe

 

[Ash]

Hmm that reminds me of Lemoncello. LOVE that stuff... maybe I can get Luigi to ship me some through his business!

I was drinking a bit from a full bottle, and put it by my feet, got knocked over, tapped against the ground and split in half.

I saved all I could, but I got barely a mouthful from half the cracked glass...

Shoulda been using a plastic cup all along!