Film storage question

[cjm]

Is there anything wrong with storing processed 35mm film in the plastic container it's purchased in? Just wondering.

 

[sepiareverb]

Tends to get scratched if you have to take it out, and is then very curly. I recently found several rolls I'd left in film cannisters back in 1986 or 87, quite a mess.

 

[infrequent]

is it worthwhile to save the entire roll or just save the keepers and throw the rest away?

 

[ruben]

Is there anything wrong with storing processed 35mm film in the plastic container it's purchased in? Just wondering.

Inside the plastic canisters, after processing, film bends and become hell to deal with when you want to print or to scan or whatever.

The old timers way of storing film, I use it, is to prepare sleeves out of a paper that in Israel is called "pergament paper", and in Argentina is called "butter paper".

Such a sleeve is bended twice, the first to have the widht of the film, and the second to produce a kind of cap, closing the package. Within one such a sleeve you can insert all the film, cutted in strips of 6 frames each.

In the USA such sleeves were sold ready from the factory. I don't know if they are still produced.

But just consider the main points. Acids found either in simple paper or in plastics, destroy one of the main qualities of film: its capability to endure a hundred years.

 

[cjm]

is it worthwhile to save the entire roll or just save the keepers and throw the rest away?

Actually, that makes a lot of sense. Most of my rolls only have one or two "keepers" anyway.

Thanks Ruben and sepiareverb for the comments.