Poll: how much film do you shoot?

[back alley]

my bathroom counter top has about 15 rolls on it, waiting for processing.

the last one there came out of the hexar af, there are 3 from pre wedding shoot (the bride getting dressed) and a bunch from the zm and the cv 40 lenses.

i am so friggin' lazy...

 

[Rafael]

Time and money have been in short supply lately. Usually, I shoot a 2-3 rolls a week (mostly B&W). However, of late I have been lucky to shoot a roll a week. So I put myself down for 0-5.

 

[BJ Bignell]

my bathroom counter top has about 15 rolls on it, waiting for processing.

the last one there came out of the hexar af, there are 3 from pre wedding shoot (the bride getting dressed) and a bunch from the zm and the cv 40 lenses.

i am so friggin' lazy...

I noticed that you decided to not count the garbage bags in your basement that are FULL of film from the 90s, and maybe even the 80s... 😉

 

[sf]

I'm buying up all the expired film I can find, and I plan on shooting . . . maybe 50 rolls in the next year. Not alot. Some B&W in there. Fact is, I am moving the more prolific portion of my passion into digital (simple snapshots and the like), and keeping the important stuff like portraits, landscapes, and intentional street photography (when I go out on the weekend with my eyes wide open) to film.

I fear that digital will slowly replace the vast majority of means over time. But, film is where the heart is, anyway.

 

[jan normandale]

I'm shooting almost exclusively film now. I haven't shot more than 10 frames lately with my digital. Retro is where I am now. Probably Ill change when the quality / price ratio comes into a price point I think represents better value than my film. Til then.... it's film baby!

 

[Cooki]

Last year I spent $6,500 on film and processing. I gotta getta girlfriend or something to distract me.

 

[Mark Norton]

I haven't shot a roll of film since 2001 and that last roll of film is still waiting to be developed.

 

[Eddyboy]

I haven't shot a roll of film since 2001 and that last roll of film is still waiting to be developed.

I shot a hundred or so rolls in June of 2002. None since then.

 

[w3rk5]

I'm shooting more these days ever since I started bulk loading and developing (b&w) myself. Unfortunately, they are mostly test shots.

 

[thawkins]

50-60 rolld/year. Went to Film Depot yesterday and purchased eight rolls of 120 (4 Delta 100 and 4 Reala) and eight rolls of 35mm (Reala). The 120 will go through a Yashicamat and the 35mm will go through a QL17, Retina 1a and 2a and maybe one roll through an SRT 101.

 

[raid]

I shoot about 2-3 rolls a weekend. All rolls are commercially developed.
I like Sam's Club Fuji Frontier. The manager and the workers know me by name and they give me royal treatment. I pay for low resolution scanning ($4/roll) for 36 exp. film developed and scanned to CD, but get "enhanced" resolution at 2MB files. With B&W film, I get the film developed at a lab ($5/roll) and then take it to Sam's Club to get it scanned for $2.80/roll).

Raid

 

[Nachkebia]

raid amin : If I may ask, How do you print them?

 

[James Brannan]

2 to 3 rolls per week for me. All processed at my local drug store. 😀

 

[shutterbug]

Up till about five years ago, I used to shoot way too much film. In the early 80's I would load my own Tri-x, using a Watson loader. For a few years before that I would load old used 35mm spools, and sometimes the old Leica cassettes, when I was using an old 111f.
It was only when I started shooting for newspapers that I got film for free, and then I started shooting loads of film.
Covering news jobs by day, and live bands by night, with an M2 with a Canon 28mm 2.8 and 50 summicron, I had a great time.
Sex Pistols, Stranglers, Buzzcocks, Queen, The Police, The Specials, Madness, Peter Frampton, David Bowie plus many more. All on the M2..( plus the usual other Press gear). Never let me down.
So, in answer to the question, in those days, between 10 and 20 rolls a day.
Nowadays, 1 at the most.

 

[Superbus_]

1-2 rolls/week. I always waste my time on choosing the right camera. 🙂

 

[CJP6008]

About 20 a week, roughly half B&W (processed in my darkroom in Peter Hogan's excellent Precysol) and half Portra NC that goes to the lab. Can be more depending on workload.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I shoot 10-12 rolls a month some months and hardly any the next...so I chose 5-10 rolls per month as my choice. More of my interest is going to photography lately than to other things so it may change to the 10-12 every month again or it may go to even more...hard telling with me.

 

[Bromo33333]

I average about 6 rolls a month (appx 1-2 per week) of C-41 B&W and Colour 35mm film. Processed at grocery store (cheap around here ... Rochester, NY!).

 

[E_Aiken]

I probably average about a roll a day, maybe a little less. Process it myself in long, arduous sessions.

 

[nikon_junkie]

Probably will sell my Jobo and all the fresh chems I have and either shoot C41 or digital. Slowly moving to all digital. Shoot for newspaper and do weddings for others (soon to be myself).

Though on my upcoming trip to Bermuda the M6 and 35 will see most of the use.

To answer the question... 2 rolls a week on average.