How many rolls in your freezer?

How many rolls in your freezer?

  • < 10

    Votes: 10 7.1%

  • Between 11 and 25

    Votes: 28 20.0%

  • Between 26 and 100

    Votes: 52 37.1%

  • More than 100

    Votes: 50 35.7%
  • Total voters
    140
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Ronald_H

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Yesterday I was taking stock of the amount of film I have lying around. I have two partly used up 'batches' I ordered from Germany and the UK recently and I have a huge pile of expired film, mostly C41 in 35mm. As I am running out of fridge space I expected it to be quite a large amount, but I was slightly surpised that I have almost 150 rolls stocked at the moment! Of course this will not seem much to guys like Tom A ;) but it makes me wonder how much film the average RFF-er has at his or hers disposal.​
 
200 at the moment.

150 rolls of Rollei Retro 100
40 rolls of Tri-X 400
And a few bits and pieces.

I'm going on a trip baby, so I am stocking up, "i'll be gone til november"
 
_larky said:
If you wanna sell some cheap, PM me :)

I'm going nuts for C41 at the moment.
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No idea where you live, but I intend to shoot it all myself anyway ;) I got my expired C-41 from swap meets and such, and I also bought a box of nearly expired rolls from the local department store. Average cost was less than 1 Euro per roll. Look around and you'll be sure to find some.

Btw, besides some loss in speed for the oldest film, quality of the expired stuff is still really good. Check my Flickr to see some examples.
 
Only ten rolls of 35mm. Bulk rolls that is; 1850 feet; about 340 x 36 exposure rolls worth. Plus about 70 rolls of 120. And a couple of boxes of 4x5.
 
None, as of yesterday evening; I had a dozen rolls of out-of-date Fuji Pro 800Z languishing beneath the ice lollies, but they're now defrosting on my bookshelf and headed for the Trip 35.

Having three kids in the house means that the freezer is no longer mine.
 
Unless you're stockpiling a particular film that may be in danger I don't see a lot of point in having a freezer jam packed full of the stuff.

There seems to be plenty available and lots of deals from the likes of Freestyle and B&H so at this stage hoarding more than you can use in six months makes little sense.
 
I have the last 1,000 ft of Double-X that was available in the UK, 200ft of Plus-X and 200ft of Acros 100. Add on one or two other bulk reels of 400 asa and some 5 x 4 sheet and i'm well stocked.

Keith - fair point, but I cannot get either of those Kodak films easily any more, or the Fuji (even as Legacy 100)
 
30-40 rolls of HP5, APX, Provia and SFX sitting in there now. Need to use, been so busy with work I have not touched the M8 I bought here last year for many months, but that is not in the freezer.
 
I've got 57 rolls of Neopan 1600 expiry July 2012, around 40 rolls of HP5 and maybe one or two C41.......
 
I just added 250 rolls from Freestyle, because I wanted to get some Neopan 400 before it went extinct. I probably have 500+ rolls of various stuff handy... these days it is a pain to try to buy anything in shops - not stocked or stocked at exorbitant prices.
 
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The problem with higher speed films (iso 400+ ) is you can not keep them too long, even not in the freezer.

C41: Agfa Photo Optima 400 exp. 2007/2008 (several 30,5m/100ft) Eur. 10,00 each at that time.
B&W: Retro 100 (Rollei)/ APX 100 50 pcs.
B&W: Rollei R3 10 pcs.
B&W IR films, a few.
 
My wife wanted to reclaim the freezer in our garage, so I now have a dedicated freezer for film and a converted wine cooler refrigerator for near term use film and chemicals (fifty degrees). I would count the film, but the freezer is not frost free, but lots of film.
 
I still have 24 rolls of TXP-320 in 220 that I'm saving for events like the Mermaid Parade.

I also stocked up Fuji Arcos that has become a staple for me. I just can't live with any supply disruption.

Cal
 
Keith said:
Unless you're stockpiling a particular film that may be in danger I don't see a lot of point in having a freezer jam packed full of the stuff.

There seems to be plenty available and lots of deals from the likes of Freestyle and B&H so at this stage hoarding more than you can use in six months makes little sense.
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Sure... but I do not hoard it, it sort of accumulated. Sometimes the stuff is given to me! And if my fridge runneth over I will make someone else happy.
 
I've got a few hundred rolls of various flavours of Fuji colour slide in ISO 50 and 100 speeds in our freezer.
I also had about 25 or thirty rolls of Black and White that I gave away, as well as about a dozen rolls of Kodachrome that I donated to an internet photobud.
Sadly I still have twenty five or thirty rolls of Agfa Scala 200 ISO black annd white slide film that is wonderful, but now incredibly expensive to develop as it must go to Denver Colorado for processing.
 
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rbsinto said:
I've got a few hundred rolls of various flavours of Fuji colour slide in ISO 50 and 100 speeds in our freezer.
I also had about 25 or thirty rolls of Black and White that I gave away, as well as about a dozen rolls of Kodachrome that I donated to an internet photobud.
Sadly I still have twenty five or thirty rols of Agfa Scala 200 ISO black annd white slide film that is wonderful, but now incredibly expensive to develop as it must go to Denver Colorado for processing.
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Just out of interest, isn't there a way to do this yourself? Foma supplies a kit to develop their B/W slide film.
 
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