Poll: how much film do you shoot?

[JoeFriday]

I'm not looking to start a competition or thread war.. just curious how much film the average RFFer goes through in a month/year and whether you develop it yourself or have a lab process it

 

[Uncle Bill]

I think I dropped almost $2000 Cdn in film and processing last year. I am going to be doing my own black and white developing shortly so that cost will come down.

Bill

 

[varjag]

I kept my film and processing costs within $300 for past year I think. Taking deals on bulk BW and home processing it helps.

 

[bmattock]

I tend to shoot several rolls of B&W a week lately. Almost no color film. And I've had my Pentax *ist DS for a bit more than a year, I'm up to 8,000 shutter acuations. Didn't seem like that many.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[vicmortelmans]

I shoot a lot of b&w until the row of films on the shelf, waiting for development, gets long. Then I tend to grab a color film to get it lab-processed. When the time comes that I spend an evening to develop the b&w films, I conclude that I still have to learn a lot and start shooting b&w films like mad.

Groeten,

Vic

 

[ch1]

At some point I promise I will learn how to develop B&W - but for now I use the labs for all my film processing.

However, I keep the operating costs down by doing D.O. and then scanning. Of course I had the up front capital expense of buying a scanner - but that is amortized over time.

Oh, I also shoot digital at times.

 

[wtl]

some time ago i counted how many rolls i shot but now i pay more attention to how many i keep, which is very few.

 

[f/stopblues]

I think I go through about 2-3 rolls of B&W a week in 35mm. Not really too much, but I don't always have time to shoot in the evenings unfortunately. I'll take swings where a roll will last two weeks, or sometimes 10 rolls in a week, especially if I'm feeling it during the weekend. I process all my own.

 

[Gid]

Depends on whether I'm shooting B&W or colour. B&W I develop at home, colour goes to the lab. Currently around 10 rolls a month 80% E6 although I shot 12 rolls last week whilst on holiday.

 

[PeterL]

When I first got my Zorki, I was up to about 1 roll per week, for a month. That was near my holiday average of 3-4 rolls per week. Now I'm back down to basically nothing. When I get my iiic back this week & I finish my exams in 3 weeks, I'll be more active again 🙂

I don't have a room that I can darken without making lots and lots of dust (blankets in front of the door etc.) so I just dump them at the lab. I don't care too much anyway, it's what ends up on my film that needs work, not the post-processing.


Peter.

 

[gns]

Story related by Lee Friedlander in the intro essay to "Arrivals and Departures"...

Over breakfast, after G. Winogrand had recently spent an evening photographing Norman Mailer's 50th B-Day party (some of these pictures are in "Public Relations").

Friedlander asks, "How did it go"?
Winogrand replies, "35 rolls, end of story".

 

[FrankS]

1-4 rolls per month, home developed

 

[Tom Harrell]

1 to 4 rolls per month, but I take mine to the local one hour hack.

 

[Socke]

Used to be much more before digital, today I shoot mostly B/W on film and color digital, except when I travel where I shoot slides. All in all it adds up to about 50 to 60 rolls B/W, 10 rolls C-41 and 20 rolls slides a year.

 

[robert blu]

During the year each mont about 3-5 rolls colour slides + 2-3 B&W (actually developped by a friend photogrpher but planning to go back developping myself in a short time). During holidays between me and my wife 15-20 depending on how long and where we go. Let say more or less 2-3 a day. Additionally some polaroid and som 120 B6W just to use old rolleiflex from my father.

 

[flashover]

well about 4- rolls a month but I don't develop it myself. i guess that's why there are about 20 or so rolls on top of the fridge waiting

 

[eric mac]

I try to shoot at least a roll a week, not including vacations. I shoot mostly black and white and develop within the week. I have about six months of contact sheets to do, though.

Eric

 

[dmr]

I averaged on my answer. Sometimes I'll do as many as 5 rolls a day, but sometimes I'll only do 2-3 a month.

 

[BudGreen]

Usually between 2 and 4 rolls per week. Exclusively black and white. Developed myself in the laundry room sink and scanned.

 

[cjm]

For me, it just depends on what I can squeeze out of my student loans for monthly "living expenses." It usually equates to two rolls a month, one color and one B&W. Both processed and scanned by a lab.