How much film to you keep in stock?

[leicapixie]

I have stopped buying and using up my present stock.
20x 36exp HP5, about 40~50 rolls 36exp Kentmere 400,
-10 rolls Kentmere 100, 120 Tri-X and HP5 about 10 rolls.

I found 100' Ektachrome, hand loaded 36 exp Ektachrome x15 rolls,
4x36Exp Velvia 50, 4 rolls 36exp Fuji color slide, 120 Portra 160 and 400 x 20,
all o/d and cost of testing out of question..

I think as transition to empty goes will invest/squander on DSLR/Mirrorless.
I want to still use my Nikkor, Leitz and Canon lenses..

 

[Deleted member 65559]

approximately 500 sheets of 5x7... TMax400,FP4+, Delta,Bergger,Efke. 100 sheets of FP4+ 4x5. 50+ rolls of 120 Tri-X & FP4. 10-20 rolls of 35mm TriX & FP4.

 

[Ted Striker]

I have enough Acros in the freezer to last decades, so I stopped buying film.

 

[chipgreenberg]

Anybody besides me worry about radiation over time?

I have about 10 rolls in a lead bag.

Chip who wears a tin foil hat (only kidding)

 

[Takkun]

Oh boy. You all make me feel better about what I've got.

2x 100' rolls Delta 100
2x 100' rolls TMY400
4x each of HP5 and FP4 36 exp/35mm, which I stopped shooting in favor of tabular films in 35
a roll of Tri-X in Super8
a pro-pack of Provia in 120
a 10-roll brick each of D100 and TMY in 120
a couple loose rolls of Foma 100 kicking around

And my reluctantly hoarded lot:
about half a 100' roll of Silvermax (which I fear isn't coming back)
A pack of FP-3000b that I more or less forgot was in there
2x pro-packs of Acros in 120 my friend talked me in to buying because the dealer was hoarding it. I'd made my peace with its demise long before that.

So I guess that does put me in the 50+ roll range. I just want to save a little room for, well, food.

 

[Ted Striker]

Anybody besides me worry about radiation over time?

Not even a little bit.

 

[wjlapier]

I have more than enough. I'm selling off my 70mm and 220 film. I probably will stick to Kodak Ektar in 35mm and 120 once all my stock is gone which might take years to deplete at the rate I'm shooting.

 

[joe bosak]

I have 6 rolls each of 35mm 24-shot and 120, and a few disposable cameras. All HP5. Plus a few packs of instax.

 

[giganova]

Just out of curiosity, why so much stockpiled, aside from what's discontinued? Just bulk discounts?

I keep stockpiling because I can't believe how cheap it is. A roll of 120 Ilford FP-4 for $4.95 ... how long can it stay that cheap? 😕

 

[ChrisPlatt]

I keep a plastic shoebox on the top shelf of my refrigerator.
When my collection of 35mm loaded cartridges and bulk spools
starts to overflow that container I sell or give away some.

Chris

 

[Rob-F]

I have an under-the-counter fridge with a freezer section, under the darkroom counter. The freezer section stays filled with 35mm and 120 Velvia. The fridge part has Tri-X, Plus-X, 5222 Double-X, Delta 100, Delta 400, Silvermax 100; and a few rolls of Kodak color negative. I'm not really getting the impression that film will go away any time soon, so I'm not as worried about it as I was a couple of years ago. Still, when I see $1000 film Nikons going for $39.95, I do worry a little.

 

[Borge H]

I guess I must stop hoarding film now. I have too much now, I think I will never be able to use all at my current rate before I am too old.

I have both 35 mm film and 120 rolls in my two large freezers. The brands are Kodak, Ilford, Fuji, Foma and some other like Agfa photo. I have both black and white film and color slide film. I sometimes regret all the color slide films as it is difficult and expensive to have them processed. The black and white I process my-self.

 

[Gregm61]

Less than 5 rolls
6 to 10 rolls
11-20 rolls
20-50 rolls
50+rolls (in the fridge)

At least one pro-pack (5 rolls) of TMax 400 and Portra 160, with the occasional rolls of TMax 100, Portra 400 and Tri-X.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Probably about 3000 feet.
Phil Forrest

 

[DHK]

I guess I must stop hoarding film now. I have too much now, I think I will never be able to use all at my current rate before I am too old.

I have both 35 mm film and 120 rolls in my two large freezers. The brands are Kodak, Ilford, Fuji, Foma and some other like Agfa photo. I have both black and white film and color slide film. I sometimes regret all the color slide films as it is difficult and expensive to have them processed. The black and white I process my-self.

Maybe someone else with experience can chime in but I think you can do e6 at home fairly easily.

 

[taemo]

1/5 of our freezer is film, I still have 60-70 35mm Neopan 400 in the freezer, bunch of HP5+, Acros 100 and Arista 100 in 35mm and 120.

Unfortunately not feeling shooting much B&W at the moment, planning to buy some color 35mm next, some Ultramax 400 and Ektar 100.

 

[Barry Kirsten]

L-R rear: 120, 35mm. 4x5.
L-R front: Kodak 12x5 dental panorama x-ray film, 2x3 sheet film.
Not a lot I suppose.

 

[Chris101]

Typically I am a trix guy. But I've gone experimental for a month:

Half of this is shot now. After the month is over I will go back to shooting digital for a bit, then back to film. So goes the pendulum.

 

[zenza]

My 650 roll stash is way too eclectic. Been starting to sell off all my random rolls to distill it down to my favourite emulsions.

All of it in the fridge.

 

[robertofollia]

My 650 roll stash is way too eclectic. Been starting to sell off all my random rolls to distill it down to my favourite emulsions.

All of it in the fridge.

This is my dream Fridge!!!
I always had 5 rolls in stock until the decline of the "chemical" photography (2004). Then I began stocking 10+ 36 exp rolls, beginning with the missed plus-x, continuing with Gevaert-Agfa Vista 200, and so on.
In 2018 I bought the last 40 rolls one spanish dealer had in stock of the Agfa Vista 200 (rebranded Fuji c200) and put them in the freezer, together with 2 30-metre cans of Foma and Valca (yes, I still keep spanish manufactured film Valca, whose factory closed in 1993). Best regards