film hoarding

[Pherdinand]

well, i'm trying hard to help you out with your film overload, Brett 🙂)

Anyway, My fridge has not more than:
3 rolls of 135 nph400 or whatever it is called lately
1 roll of 135 kodak bw400cn
4 rolls of 120 delta3200
2 rolls of 120 tech pan
2 rolls of 120 fp4plus
that's it, only 12 rolls!

and 4 rolls of 135 e100sw slide in the mail, hopefully arriving soon...

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I have 75' of Kodachrome. No "II", no "-25", it is ASA 16 Type "A". Process K-11. Have not shot any of that roll since 1975, but it is refrigerated. I should just take it out and display it.

It is in with the 126 cartridges, 620 Kodacolor-200, Super-8 Ektacrhome, and Minolta-16.

 

[GeneW]

After selling my stock of colour films, I'm down to less than a dozen rolls of B&W in both 35mm and 120 formats. Instead of keeping a large stock, I'd rather have an excuse for more frequent trips to the camera shops 😀

Gene

 

[SolaresLarrave]

I tend to buy small amounts of the same film. Hence, I have some 10 rolls of K-chrome 64, 8 of K-chrome 200 (probably less) and about 40 rolls of Ektachrome (ISO 100 & 400). Also, in a box, all the weird ISOs: one roll of Kodak 3200, several rolls of EIR, 4 of K-chrome 25 and two or three of Velvia. Not a whole lot if you don't count my 17 rolls of Scala and about two or three propacks of 120 chrome and 2 packs of 220 Velvia (for my Mamiya TLR).

To think my professiona lab is closing makes me wanna cry... Good there are still mail order labs! 🙂

 

[hugivza]

Now here's the scary part: WINTER'S COMING!!!!
:

Like everything in life it depends on your viewpoint - summer is coming here. Soon it will be too hot to take out that nasty black photographic equipment, we just have to stay at home and drink, and contemplate the meaning of life.

My freezer has 13 rolls Velvia, 10 FP4, 8 400TCN, 4 of infra red way out of date, and a whole bunch of 120 that I know I will use someday. I also have a couple of rolls of Scala B and W slide film which I must have wanted for something. Some 3200 Kodak (4 rolls) - an ecletic collection defying any rhyme or reason.

 

[rbiemer]

11 or 12 rolls of 36 exp Tri-X,
2 of Kodachrome 64,
2 of Svemna 64,
4 of 800Max(never send my brother to pick up film for you; he'll just grab "well, it was the best deal they had" for you :bang:. He does have good qualities and I'm sure I'll think of them in a minute 🙄 ),
5 or 6 rolls of 120 film--probably T-max 400,
and that's it.
Need to get some more soon.
Rob

 

[pshinkaw]

One of the risks of hoarding film is that it will become an orphaned process. Back in the late 70's I purchased 2 dozen rolls of 127 Ektachrome-X (E-4). I still have most of it, but E-4 processing is almost (but not quite) impossible to obtain. I didn't use it up because I knew at the time that 127 would be unobtainalbe in the near future (now the far past). I think that fits the definition of hoarding.

-Paul

 

[dr.kollig]

Well, lets see there is some in fridge No. 1, 100 feet rolls of b/w plus some colour slide and some 30 Agfa Scala 120, now over to fridge No. 2, about 60-80 Agfa/Tura b/w and 20 Ilford 120, dated to 1995! Finally the storage some 50 slide films in 135 and 20 in 120, outdated 1999-2002. Oh CN is much easier 15 Portra films and 16 Kodak 200/24, the later I will give away to friends.

I really tried to get clean telling myself, to not buy more film when you're going to use. It worked - for a few days - then I got into a store I had bought a Rolleiflex 6008 some weeks ago: Good to see you, I've got some old films for you - 20 Ilford dated back to 1995! Well I did not BUY it....

Well, on the other hand I have enough chemicals to develop all these b/w films, but fixer might be short...

Wolfram

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Fridge or freezer?

I fridge.

 

[Pherdinand]

well, after the commercial developing and fixing materials are no more sold, there still will be chemicals sold so you can mix your own. So, home processing of trad. film will get not impossible just a bit more...challenging, interesting.
I only can wish to live so long, though.

 

[wierdcollector]

Guilty, I have 48 disposeable cameras, 11 rolls of 120 Fuji, and approx. (I lost count) 350 rolls of 35 mm in various makers/speeds (mostly Kroger drug store/ Kodak/ Mitsubishi andFuji.) all in my basement freezer. Still have room for a few more rolls and possibly a TV dinner or two, LOL.

 

[SolaresLarrave]

BTW, can I say that I fridge if my film was evicted from the crisper to the freezer in the fridge? It turns out my wife values salad over E-6 stuff.

 

[dr.kollig]

I just picked up more CN film to give away, they dropped the price from 1 € per package to 25 cent, picking duo packs, this means 12.5 cent per film and 8.33 cent on the only triple I found.
This christmas everybody gets colour negative film. "Oh, you are shooting digital - well bad luck!"

It is Müllers "Klick"-Label, used to be Agfa, but now seems to be more like Fuji, they give up "Klick" and just label them as Müller Photo. Might be worth to check out Müllers drugstore.

Wolfram