How much film do you shoot?

How much film do you shoot?

  • Rarely

    Votes: 39 6.8%

  • 1-6 per year

    Votes: 39 6.8%

  • 7-12 per year

    Votes: 81 14.2%

  • 2-3 per month

    Votes: 173 30.3%

  • 4-10 per month

    Votes: 176 30.8%

  • 10+ per month

    Votes: 63 11.0%
  • Total voters
    571
Not much at all... None last year.... 2 1/2 rolls of 120 this year.... Hate to say it the whole digital workflow once I figured out how it works for me is just so much better I'm way more organized/editing shooting digital... Only reason to shoot film is just cause and you feel like using the a certain camera...Plus I shoot way more color now than B&W...Started to do some digital B&W with the Fuji X-Pro2 in 1:1 crop mode boy its really good comparing it to some of my Hasselblad B&W stuff... I've got a bunch of rolls of film from over the years that haven't processed not sure when I will... This is coming from someone that used to shoot 90% film and 10% digital... The tables have been turned completely...
 
62 rolls developed and scanned up to now (mix of 35mm and 120mm) with 15 rolls of exposed but undeveloped 120mm and 3 rolls of 35mm still to be scanned.
 
So far I've finished two rolls in about 12 months. I've never been great at even starting rolls as I'd be far too much of a cowardy-custard to believe any would turn out well enough. I've had so many cameras that I haven't even put a film in that it's a bit of a disgrace.

Anyway, I've now got 7 cameras and a film in six of them. I'm in the middle of colour films in my Fed 2 and in my Agfa Super Solinette, but these are just 'tester films' to see if the cameras work alright.
 
I would normally shoot only a two or three rolls a month, although with the last two weeks of events in Barcelona I am averaging that almost every day.

One question for people that shoot a lot (quantity) of film all the time - how on earth do you manage to keep up with the processing, scanning and archiving? I have been processing blocks of four films at a time, but it takes two to three hours for each - not counting the drying times...

Trying to do this while also running around following the street protests and also trying to find any time for work is proving incredibly difficult.
 
In the last six to nine months? None. I've gotten to the point where I simply can't be bothered with developing and scanning film when I can get the look I want from my digital cameras. When the weather gets better I'll probably blow the dust off a couple of medium-format cameras and my M3, perhaps put a roll or two through each, but the overwhelming majority of my photographic needs are now taken care of by my Fuji digitals and Ricoh GR.
 
Usually use ISO 100 or ISO 400.

One 35mm B&W roll per quarter

One 120 roll B&W per quarter

Six 4x5 B&W sheets per quarter

I develop and print or develop and scan my own film.

The subject matter varies depending on my personal preference.
 
ruby.monkey said:
In the last six to nine months? None. I've gotten to the point where I simply can't be bothered with developing and scanning film when I can get the look I want from my digital cameras. When the weather gets better I'll probably blow the dust off a couple of medium-format cameras and my M3, perhaps put a roll or two through each, but the overwhelming majority of my photographic needs are now taken care of by my Fuji digitals and Ricoh GR.
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Similar here... 9 years ago I loaded some Fuji NPS 160 in a camera with a new lens on it, and shot some of the roll. It has sat unused since. I chose digital...
 
ruby.monkey said:
In the last six to nine months? None. I've gotten to the point where I simply can't be bothered with developing and scanning film when I can get the look I want from my digital cameras. When the weather gets better I'll probably blow the dust off a couple of medium-format cameras and my M3, perhaps put a roll or two through each, but the overwhelming majority of my photographic needs are now taken care of by my Fuji digitals and Ricoh GR.
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More or less the same for me now.
I finished a roll in my M3 the other week but no keepers.

I have some interesting film in the fridge and that will probably keep me going for 18 months or more.

A ten pack of HP5 seems to last me a couple of years now 😱
 
I seem to be in the minority!

Last week I shot 6 rolls of film, the week earlier 10 rolls of film and I'm probably looking at around 20 rolls this week.

John
 
I am now loading re-usable cassettes from a 100' roll of FP4+.
I'm loading by hand and try to load about 3 feet of film per load.
By loading shorter lengths I want to be shooting an entire, shorter, roll per outing, and developing a tank-full, 4 reels, at once.
 
First time I have looked at this thread. Yikes. The “film renaissance” thing might be an internet myth from the evidence here.

From a post above: “One question for people that shoot a lot (quantity) of film all the time - how on earth do you manage to keep up with the processing, scanning and archiving?”


I’m retired. Otherwise it would be impossible. I seem to prefer the film esthetic, so will persist at 80% film, 20% digital until I change my mind about the esthetic, or just wear down and submit to the dominant paradigm, crushed under the unremitting boot of progress, whichever comes first. Perhaps I will get an iphone, they seem popular.
 
Larry, I hope (and believe) RFF is not a very good gauge of the entire world of photography, and film photography in particular.
I have been making it a practice to do extra prints, and give them to the people that appear in my pictures, if I can. I shoot mainly B&W and make injet prints.
Without fail, folks love to get the print, and remark that they love B&W, and hardly ever get to hold a print of any picture they take, it is just all on their phone or computer.
I don't believe you or I or anyone will quit taking pictures if film dries up. Also I believe there will always be enough film being made for us to shoot one more roll.
I remember the saying about how Henry Ford destroyed the "Buggy Whip Industry" and found out recently that anyone can buy a buggy whip, several styles and models in all price ranges, on the internet today.
 
I stopped making pics digital so I sold the whole crap except my iPhone. For the rest I am working on film only in B&W and color and I am printing both in my darkroom. For B&W I am printing with a Heiland Split Grade and for RA-4 color with a FEM-Kunze CFL-4012 analyzer. My workflow is at the moment less then 20 films in a year, both 35mm and 120 roll film format. My favorite gear: M7 (Leica) and the Cosina Voigtlander Bessa III R.F. cameras. However I love my MAMIYA 645 Pro and my Russian and Ukrainian R.F. cameras too (Zorki-6, FED-3 and Kiev-4AM).
 
Sadly less and less 35mm and medium format, old age is making the darkroom so much of a chore. First of this year from a total of 5 films I only managed to do 1 roll🙁 Sending film out is just to much for my budget, And the wife and I are finally getting close to selling out and going RVing full time.

David

If I have crossed the line please remove or relocate. David
 
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