steveyork
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At any given time 50-100 commercial loads of 35mm and 2000-3500 ft of bulk loads, virtually all B&W that last long past expirations dates. My wife has about another 50-100 MF.
How much film do you keep at home?
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Film is a lark for me too 😉..... that's why i keep a fridge full, 35, 120 & sheet film....
Darthfeeble
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You're more larksome than I.
stephen_lumsden
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I can see it going over 50 rolls and having to get a separate fridge TBH. I find myself getting rolls of 10 more often these days to keep cost down
CLAdictic
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Allowing space in the freezer for film and food, 50 rolls of 35 and 120
raydm6
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About 50 rolls myself - among them, I still have some Agfa Scala in 35 & 120 and a brick of Plus-X I will shoot 📷 someday.
dct
perpetual amateur
It went down quickly, after I finished the last APS (240 film) rolls and put my Minolta Vectis system on display. The replacement become digital Fuji X cameras and lenses. Still a few rolls ready to use for my RF cameras, when I'm in the mood.
farlymac
PF McFarland
Bottom shelf is nothing but film, and I have a couple other containers on another shelf. Not hoarding, just haven't used it as much as I thought I would.
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ymc226
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I just returned to film this month, having been inspired by my daughter who is a first year photography student in college and wanted to shoot film. Will shoot only 35mm as I want my photos to be obviously film with grain and such evident. Also will develop my own B&W as before but will use DD-X for the first time. Never developed color but got Arista's C41 liquid kit which seems to have the identical instructions as the Cinestill kit so I assume they are one and the same with the Arista on sale. The Flic Film water bath contraception seemed like a good idea so that is in the process as well. We have a small commercial type freezer at my work that is solely for my use (the type that I used to open up from the top where they sold ice cream and popsicles from). Awaiting delivery from Negative Supply of their negative scanning kit as I am in California now and cannot waste water from print washers anymore compared to when I was in NJ.
Stocked up on Tri-X x 60 rolls, HP5+ x 50 rolls, FP4+ x 50 rolls, Portra 160 x 50 rolls, and Portra 400 x 50 rolls.
Stocked up on Tri-X x 60 rolls, HP5+ x 50 rolls, FP4+ x 50 rolls, Portra 160 x 50 rolls, and Portra 400 x 50 rolls.
pvdhaar
Peter
With current film prices and selection available here in the local brick and mortar store, I don't stack up on film just yet. I'll keep an eye out for cheaper stock though..
Cyriljay
Leica Like
I have about 15 Films
jaredangle
Photojournalist
Around 150 rolls of film plus 60+ sheet of 4x5, just bought a dedicated freezer
seany65
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I'll do a proper count in a day or two, but in the little "cooler" lunch bag thingy I have:
1x 126 kodak verichrome pan 12-shot.
4x 126 kodak kodacolour gold 24-shot.
3x 35mm Fuji Superia 36-shot.
1x 35mm Lomo 100 colour 36-shot.
1x 35mm kentmere pan 400 36-shot.
2x 35mm Ilford XP2 super 36-shot.
1x 120 Ilford Pan F.
1x 120 Ilford Delta 100.
1x 120 Ilford FP4+.
3x 120 Lomor colour 400.
2x 120 lomo mono 100.
In the Fridge:
1x large Sandwich box of 126 kodakcolour gold 200 and a bit of 126 verichrome pan.
1x large sandwich box of 35mm film, mostly kodak colorplus, and some Ilford XP2 super, and possibly with a couple of fuji 400's.
1x small small box of various 120 Ilford and Lomo mono and colour film.
That's not counting the colorplus in my petri compact (=half/=junior) nor the one I've just taken out of it. The "X 400" (I presume superia X-tra) in my agfa super silette, the colorplus in my agfa super solinette, the 120 pan f in my Gevaert Gevabox 6x9, the Lomo 100 colour in my Fed 3A, the verichrome pan in one Rollei sl26, the kodacolor gold in my other Rollei 126 nor the 400 asa (mono? Colour?) film in my canon demi S.
1x 126 kodak verichrome pan 12-shot.
4x 126 kodak kodacolour gold 24-shot.
3x 35mm Fuji Superia 36-shot.
1x 35mm Lomo 100 colour 36-shot.
1x 35mm kentmere pan 400 36-shot.
2x 35mm Ilford XP2 super 36-shot.
1x 120 Ilford Pan F.
1x 120 Ilford Delta 100.
1x 120 Ilford FP4+.
3x 120 Lomor colour 400.
2x 120 lomo mono 100.
In the Fridge:
1x large Sandwich box of 126 kodakcolour gold 200 and a bit of 126 verichrome pan.
1x large sandwich box of 35mm film, mostly kodak colorplus, and some Ilford XP2 super, and possibly with a couple of fuji 400's.
1x small small box of various 120 Ilford and Lomo mono and colour film.
That's not counting the colorplus in my petri compact (=half/=junior) nor the one I've just taken out of it. The "X 400" (I presume superia X-tra) in my agfa super silette, the colorplus in my agfa super solinette, the 120 pan f in my Gevaert Gevabox 6x9, the Lomo 100 colour in my Fed 3A, the verichrome pan in one Rollei sl26, the kodacolor gold in my other Rollei 126 nor the 400 asa (mono? Colour?) film in my canon demi S.
Bolo Kukus
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Buying film in Australia is no longer a consumer purchase - it's an investment.
Alas, film here is a niche product now. Many young photographers I know bought a film camera, played with it for a few months, and then either put it away or sold it. It's a style thing, at least in Melbourne. Weekend walks in the city with your Nikon f-whatever.
The cheapest I can buy cassettes of Ilford (my past favorite was HP5) is $15. Online from a trusted supplier. 120, I don't have my own mint at home, so nyet to that.
Film canisters and Kodak slide boxes sell on Ebay. An ex-film photographer I know put 100 of his on the Big E at AUD $5.00 each - and some sucker bought them all. One born every minute, they saw him coming. With my stash of those beaut yellow boxes, I'm in like Flynn, as the locals say here. (For you non-Aussies, it's a popular Aussie expression, referring to Errol the late actor who was known for his rampant 'womanizing' and, as his biographers say, his 'manizing' also.)
I still have a reasonable film stash in my darkroom fridge, along with FB enlarging paper I will likely never use and (in a separate fridge) allso a huge supply of Ilford Galerie (the original stuff, almost as good as Kodak Azo) in 11x14 and 16x20, which I bought in 2000 from a shop in Melbourne that was about to close and the owner wanted quick cash, so I got it as a good price. I test it every few years and it's as good (almost) as the day it came off the Ilford assembly line. My partner is keen for me to dispose of those and get rid of the two fridges, so an eBay sale may be in the offing. Watch this space.
Nowadays I use maybe 10-12 rolls every year. I like using my manual/mechanical cameras, but my basic problem is that, given my usual types of photography (mostly static), I can just as easily do all my images with digital, at far cheaper cost.
As for film, every time I try to count my stash I get a different number. Likely about 100 rolls of 35mm in cassettes, four or five Kodak bulk rolls, about 50 120 roll films.
I must add a note to the instructions to my executor to sell all this at top $$ prices, after I've carked...
Alas, film here is a niche product now. Many young photographers I know bought a film camera, played with it for a few months, and then either put it away or sold it. It's a style thing, at least in Melbourne. Weekend walks in the city with your Nikon f-whatever.
The cheapest I can buy cassettes of Ilford (my past favorite was HP5) is $15. Online from a trusted supplier. 120, I don't have my own mint at home, so nyet to that.
Film canisters and Kodak slide boxes sell on Ebay. An ex-film photographer I know put 100 of his on the Big E at AUD $5.00 each - and some sucker bought them all. One born every minute, they saw him coming. With my stash of those beaut yellow boxes, I'm in like Flynn, as the locals say here. (For you non-Aussies, it's a popular Aussie expression, referring to Errol the late actor who was known for his rampant 'womanizing' and, as his biographers say, his 'manizing' also.)
I still have a reasonable film stash in my darkroom fridge, along with FB enlarging paper I will likely never use and (in a separate fridge) allso a huge supply of Ilford Galerie (the original stuff, almost as good as Kodak Azo) in 11x14 and 16x20, which I bought in 2000 from a shop in Melbourne that was about to close and the owner wanted quick cash, so I got it as a good price. I test it every few years and it's as good (almost) as the day it came off the Ilford assembly line. My partner is keen for me to dispose of those and get rid of the two fridges, so an eBay sale may be in the offing. Watch this space.
Nowadays I use maybe 10-12 rolls every year. I like using my manual/mechanical cameras, but my basic problem is that, given my usual types of photography (mostly static), I can just as easily do all my images with digital, at far cheaper cost.
As for film, every time I try to count my stash I get a different number. Likely about 100 rolls of 35mm in cassettes, four or five Kodak bulk rolls, about 50 120 roll films.
I must add a note to the instructions to my executor to sell all this at top $$ prices, after I've carked...
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Darthfeeble
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15 rolls of various 120 and 14 rolls of 135. Probably a two year supply.
yanchep_mike
Always Trying
Like DownUnder said Australia is not a good place to get into Film. I was crazy enough 10 to 15 years ago and bought a lot, a lot, a lot of films.
My guess would be in two freezers I have at least 800-900 meters of polypanF, 20 plus packs (bricks) of 35mm, prop more, 100 plus rolls of 120, and 200 to 250 sheets of 4x5.
I know I am crazy, but not buying film in my lifetime.
My guess would be in two freezers I have at least 800-900 meters of polypanF, 20 plus packs (bricks) of 35mm, prop more, 100 plus rolls of 120, and 200 to 250 sheets of 4x5.
I know I am crazy, but not buying film in my lifetime.
Retro-Grouch
Veteran
Should I include all the Velvia 100 in my freezer that I can't have processed any more? I can't do E-6 where I live, so what do I do with it, now? 🙁
neal3k
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I just added two bulk rolls of Santacolor 100 (Kodak Aerocolor) to my stash of about 75 rolls. I bought one a few days before the July sale and caught a great special deal on the first day of the sale so bought my second. One is in the freezer and one is in the bulk loader now.
AlwaysOnAuto
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I keep as little as possible around. I wouldn't want my film cameras to think I'd use them. They'd probably just break to spite me if I did.
Bolo Kukus
en vacances...
Polypan F? You poor thing...
Call me "opined" (okay, opinionated), but there was a film well worth forgetting. I have long thought Ilford Pan F was a crapper to work with, but Polypan, no thanks. If you get good results from it, then kudos to you.
In my own way I'm just as bad, with Kodak Panatomic-X. At times I think I've cornered what is left of the market for Panatomic here in AUS, I have three 100-foot (30 meter) bulk rolls and about 20 cassettes of it left in my fridge. Also maybe a few 120 rolls. I keep getting offers for this stock but so far I've resisted, altho' with Tri-X going for AUD $300+ in Melbourne, I may be sitting on a small fortune. Not that I'm likely to use it up anyway as my film days are quickly passing me by.
So you and I are probably both about as crazy...
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