How Many Rolls of Undeveloped Film Do Have Lying Around?

How Many Rolls of Undeveloped Film Do Have Lying Around?

  • None

    Votes: 43 19.5%

  • 1-3 rolls

    Votes: 63 28.5%

  • 4-9 rolls

    Votes: 53 24.0%

  • Over 10 rolls

    Votes: 62 28.1%
  • Total voters
    221
None. I develop almost everything within a day of getting home.

Slide film goes in mailers and is sent out asap. B&W starts getting worked on immediately.

Two examples:

1. Colorado trip. 15 rolls 120 taken in two days. Three days later it was all developed.
2. Any night out with the 4x5 rangefinder. Typically this will yield 6-18 sheets to develop. The next day, they are always done and scanned. (I develop B&W 4x5 film in batches of six, so this is actually up to three hours of work.)
 
I've got 9 rolls, I'll probably go through half of them by the end of the month. I'm new to film and haven't figured out what I like yet, so I've got a bit of everything. Here's what I've tried so far:

B/W:
XP2
TriX
Neopan 400 and 1600
Color:
Portra 400
Astia
Provia 100 and 400

Here's what I've got that I haven't tried yet:

B/W:
Neopan Acros 100
Color:
More Provia 100 and 400
400H

Also been trying to find a lab I like, the local one gives me scratched negatives half the time, going to try Samy's mail order at $5 a roll next.
 
Only four, but I wish I had a couple hundred rolls of my own street photography, etc. shots to develop :) Would be like money in the bank to me. I only manage to expose about 1-3 rolls of film/week.
 
I sometimes wonder if there aren't two types of photographers. Those that like the act of taking pictures and those that like the final product. I don't think they're mutually exclusive but I have come across both types.

I consider myself the second type. I love taking the picture but it's the final product that gets me excited. I, therefore, do not have any undeveloped film laying around.
 
Two rolls of Tri-X and two of Tmax 3200. Lately, I acquired a new lens, so one roll of slide film is at the lab for development. I barely had enough time to hunt for pictures, so developing had to wait for two weeks. But I'm beginning to itch for finally being able to see what's hidden on my negatives.

So, one of my next evenings will be dedicated to alchemy ...
 
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre!

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre!

back alley said:
i have 88 rolls of 120 film, in a plastic bag, somewhere, hidden in a box, in my basement.
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The treasure of the Sierra Madre! :)

I am backlogged by about 30-40 rolls of HP5 in 35mm, a couple of FP4 and some rolls of 120. Also, I need to make contact prints of some 40-50 developed films...
One reason why I want to shoot more 120... I find contact sheets in 35mm a somewhat frustrating experience: I love the 36frames-storyboard-diary-tell-the-story-of-a-day/event-aspect of a 35mm contact sheet. But the frames are quite small. I, who took the pictures, and am used to this stuff, can get something out of it, though I wish the frames were a tad bigger. To friends/non-photographers, it can be an underwhelming experience. Ok, that's why you make (even rough) (work) prints of the potential keepers -- yeah, but it is hard to find time to do that.
With 120 film, I find that a nicely made contact sheet is ALMOST something I could "hang on the wall", so to speak.
Let's see how this develops ;-) See, I might end up like Back Alley, with a Treasure of the Sierra Madre of undeveloped 120 film :)
 
guilty. I must admit, I seem to procrastinate when it comes to developing my B&W film. I have rolls sitting around from over 10 years ago as well as several sheets of 4x5 and a couple rolls of 120 from within the last year.

I do consider this the biggest negative when shooting film. Digital has made me lazy. But I still do prefer the aesthetic of film, both color slide and B&W.
 
None...

I have found two undeveloped rolls in the last 18 months and did develop them.

But I must have known when not developing them originally, that there was 'nothing to see' on them :rolleyes:
 
Hmmm.... so you were right originally not to develop them, suspecting it would be a waste of effort? Pondering that one... :)
 
At the moment, 11.
Only 2 are B&W, the rest are all C-41, and waiting for me to finish my DIY motorbase so I can process them. But of those 9 C-41's, 3 are test rolls of cheap Superia I took in my backyard so I don't test on 'important' rolls.
 
4-5 finished rolls sitting on my desk, 4-5 half-exposed sitting in various cameras. I do consider this a disadvantage vs digital. But it's not really the developing and scanning delay that bugs me.... it's not having the EXIF info to "auto-magically" file the pictures into my date/time based organizational system.

j
 
4 already and 3 loaded in cameras...waiting for the ones resulting from the Euro RFF meeting in Firenze next weekend (10-11 April).
Than it will be a big herd.
 
I'm sure there's 10+ rolls in the back of the freezer.......I've developed exposed rolls, that were OVER 10 years old, and they come out just fine, I think now mostly everything I shoot now gets done in less than 12 hours, but the old stuff in the freezer has just "been" there, one day, I'll just take them all out and see what's on them still, will be quite interesting :)

Tom
 
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NickTrop said:
I've had that many at certain points. I consider this an advantage of shooting digital. It's the film photog's dirty little secret.
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I have 3 rolls of B&W sitting around. I'll get to them, and I'm looking forward to it.

And I don't feel compelled to shoot digital instead.

I know dirtly little secrets. I have dirty little secrets. This ain't one of them. ;)
 
I dropped off 10 rolls at the lab yesterday so only two remain in the fridge, plus two in my cameras .
 
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