How much film to you keep in stock?

How much film to you keep in stock?

  • Less than 5 rolls

    Votes: 4 2.5%

  • 6 to 10 rolls

    Votes: 16 10.1%

  • 10 to 50 rolls

    Votes: 53 33.5%

  • 50+ in the fridge

    Votes: 85 53.8%
  • Total voters
    158
  • Poll closed .
Freezer:
100 rolls of 35 FP-4,
100 rolls of 120 FP-4.

Fridge:
10 rolls each (ready to shoot).

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8x10 inch film
one 25 sheet box of ISO 100

4x5 inch film
three 50 sheet boxes of Fomapan ISO 100
two 50 sheet boxes of Ilford HP5+ ISO 400

120 film
5 rolls of Ilford HP5+ 400
5 rolls of Fomapan ISO 100
2 rolls of Ilford ISO 3200
30 rolls of Portrait film ISO 160
5 rolls of Portrait film ISO 400
16 rolls of Misc. Slide film

220 film
30 rolls of Portrait film ISO 160
5 rolls of Portrait film ISO 400

35mm film
6 rolls of 36 exposure Ilford HP5+ ISO 400
6 rolls of 36 exposure Fomapan ISO 100
2 rolls of 36 exposure Ilford ISO 3200
12 rolls of 36 exposure misc. color film

Polaroid film
1 box



Film Supply by Narsuitus, on Flickr
 
I have about thirty rolls and couple, maybe three bulks in small refrigerator.
And one bulk in the bulk loader in the room.
 
about 2.5K frames altogether, mostly MF 6x6. In 120 and 220 film.
A small amount of that is 135 type film, no more than 400 frames

I'm interested in acquiring 220 film, hit me up :)
 
50+ but not in the fridge.
Eastman 5222 is incredibly stable regardless of temperature so I just keep it wherever.

Phil Forrest
 
I reckon that survey is far too unambitious. 50+ rolls as the largest quantity bracket just doesn't cut it for us film-doomsday preppers.
I've got
- 125 rolls of 135 colour slide
- 76 rolls of 135 colour neg
- 32 rolls of 120 colour slide
- 30 rolls of 120 colour neg
- 92 rolls of 135 b&w neg
- 9 rolls of 120 b&w neg
(and 36 packs of Instax Mini)
As you can see, I'm heavily biased to stocking up on colour, only because I'm thinking b&w has a better chance of manufacturing longevity.
Since I use maybe 15 rolls a year I've got decades to go before I exhaust this pile, and yet whenever I see a sale, I snap more up. Recently I had to upsize my fridge to cope.
I'm sure even this collection is modest compared to some others here.
 
I have around 30+ rolls of b&w, bought some Kentmere 400 &. 100 I want to shoot but going through the last of my Arista film as it is expired. I just bought a C-41 home kit because I have a bunch of c-41 well expired color film I want to play with. When it’s gone it’s gone. Oh & I bought 2 rolls of movie film in the fridge I want to shoot also. Has that black whatever it’s called on it. :D
 
gb hill said:
Oh & I bought 2 rolls of movie film in the fridge I want to shoot also. Has that black whatever it’s called on it. :D
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Remjet. Ick. It's not black and white movie film, correct? I only ask because the B&W motion picture stocks don't have Remjet. You just do a prewash in room temperature water and you're fine. It's the color stuff and Kodachrome that have the Remjet. It needs a Borax bath (before developing) and a few squeegee passes to remove it. If there is black goo left over, it is a pain to remove but it can be done. Any basic solution softens it so you can do your sponge/squeegee right after the fixer before the final rinse. I had to resoak my last roll of Kodachrome 64 I developed in borax after fixing and rinsing because there was still a lot of black garbage on the negs.

Phil Forrest
 
Probably 50+ in the freezer.

Combination of colour neg and slide, B&W, all 35mm. Some is at least 10 yrs past expiration, but has always been frozen.

I probably buy one or two dozen rolls a year, so at the rate I shoot, I always have a few years of stock.


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As ready-to-shoot rolls less than 100. However, I'm sitting on:

- 4 x 100foot spools of HP5+ and Delta 400
- ~850feet Kodak Vision 500T (original Vision)
- ~300feet Kodak Vision3 200T
- ~750feet Kodak Vision3 500T
- ~500feet Kodak Vision3 250D
- 400 4x5 sheets of Provia and Velvia 100F in unopened boxes in the freezer
- 60sheets in opened boxes 4x5 E-6 films
- 2 unopened 100sheet boxes of HP5+
- ~30sheets of HP5+ opened box
- 11 25sheet boxes of Ilford's direct positive paper
- ~50 sheets of random Dupont and Kodak litho film that I've never tried before.

The Vision1 500T film was a recan from an NBC studio job and I think the can was mishandled over the past few decades and has become significantly slower and has been exposed to all kinds of weird ambient radiation I think. One of the most random pieces of film I have ever worked with:

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I recently cleared out a fair amount of old film, but I have approximately 50 rolls of 120 (including one of 220) and over 20 rolls of 135, mostly E-6, in the freezer.

- Murray
 
Phil_F_NM said:
Remjet. Ick. It's not black and white movie film, correct? I only ask because the B&W motion picture stocks don't have Remjet. You just do a prewash in room temperature water and you're fine. It's the color stuff and Kodachrome that have the Remjet. It needs a Borax bath (before developing) and a few squeegee passes to remove it. If there is black goo left over, it is a pain to remove but it can be done. Any basic solution softens it so you can do your sponge/squeegee right after the fixer before the final rinse. I had to resoak my last roll of Kodachrome 64 I developed in borax after fixing and rinsing because there was still a lot of black garbage on the negs.

Phil Forrest
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Phil its Kodak Vision Color 50D. Remjet. I couldn’t think of it. I bought it from the FPP store a year ago. I’ve seen a few YouTube videos on how to remove it. It should be a fun film to shoot. I’ll probably get to it this summer. Interesting about your experience with the Kodachrome.
 
I voted “50+ in the fridge” but it's really half a case of FP100C + a dozen (or so) boxes of FP100C45 + a few assorted rolls of 120 and 35mm that is in the fridge.

The other stash is in the freezer - dozens of 120 E6 rolls + boxes of Quickload and Readyload E6 + a few boxes of 4x5 sheet E6.
 
Remjet removal can be done but I've found that its difficulty varies depending on the age and manufacturer of the film. I've had very good luck with Kodak Vision3. Older Kodak Vision films seem to have stickier Remjet. I'm currently using about 50g of sodium carbonate (washing soda . . . buying it as sodium carbonate or you can bake down baking soda in a pan at 400 degrees F for an hour if you just want to experiment for now) for about a litre of water at about 100degrees F and shaking the film in reels in my development tanks for about 2 minutes and rinsing it out. The black stuff just washes out. In the case of Vision 1, after the prebath shake and rinse, I develop and before the stabilizer/rinse step I put the film into a darkroom tray and carefully run my fingers over the non-emulsion side of the film in water and rinse off the residual remjet.
 
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