An advantageous happening

[holmes]

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I was sitting home Saturday night when I missed hearing my refrigerator making noises. A little checking revealed the compressor had gone out. Sunday morning I called building maintenance and about 45 minutes later the chief of maintenance showed up with a new frig. I unloaded the old. When I started in on the freezer I was amazed by the volume of film I had stored. 35mm and 120 MF. Among the goodies were 10 rolls of Agfa's ISO 200 B&W transparencies (also have the mailers,but not in freezer). Agfa ISO 50 for chromes. Fuji from ISO 50 Velvia to ISO 100. Provia 100, Sensia 100 and 200 ISO. Kodak T-Max 400 and some 125. Some amateur Kodak in small bundles of both color and B&W. The ISOs range from 200 for color to 800 for B&W.

I also found about three or four different films from Illford. That includes their B&W process C-41. Most all are in bricks or half bricks. Well when the VA decides what their going to do with my knee, and does it. Then maybe I can gat out and shoot some up.

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[Guest ccmsosse]

I was sitting home Saturday night when I missed hearing my refrigerator making noises. A little checking revealed the compressor had gone out. Sunday morning I called building maintenance and about 45 minutes later the chief of maintenance showed up with a new frig. I unloaded the old. When I started in on the freezer I was amazed by the volume of film I had stored. 35mm and 120 MF. Among the goodies were 10 rolls of Agfa's ISO 200 B&W transparencies (also have the mailers,but not in freezer). Agfa ISO 50 for chromes. Fuji from ISO 50 Velvia to ISO 100. Provia 100, Sensia 100 and 200 ISO. Kodak T-Max 400 and some 125. Some amateur Kodak in small bundles of both color and B&W. The ISOs range from 200 for color to 800 for B&W.

I also found about three or four different films from Illford. That includes their B&W process C-41. Most all are in bricks or half bricks. Well when the VA decides what their going to do with my knee, and does it. Then maybe I can gat out and shoot some up.

 

Why store film in the Freezer?

[twittle]

I was sitting home Saturday night when I missed hearing my refrigerator making noises. A little checking revealed the compressor had gone out. Sunday morning I called building maintenance and about 45 minutes later the chief of maintenance showed up with a new frig. I unloaded the old. When I started in on the freezer I was amazed by the volume of film I had stored. 35mm and 120 MF. Among the goodies were 10 rolls of Agfa's ISO 200 B&W transparencies (also have the mailers,but not in freezer). Agfa ISO 50 for chromes. Fuji from ISO 50 Velvia to ISO 100. Provia 100, Sensia 100 and 200 ISO. Kodak T-Max 400 and some 125. Some amateur Kodak in small bundles of both color and B&W. The ISOs range from 200 for color to 800 for B&W.

I also found about three or four different films from Illford. That includes their B&W process C-41. Most all are in bricks or half bricks. Well when the VA decides what their going to do with my knee, and does it. Then maybe I can gat out and shoot some up.

 

Congrats on your find! Very nice.

 

Why store film in the Freezer?

 

Colors tend to shift if left at room temp or warmer for long periods, and b/w film can become cloudy. If film is frozen, these undesirable changes are slowed dramatically.

[MPerson]

Nice find Holmes! I have some bricks down in the bottom of my freezer, APX in 35mm and 120, which I bought with the mindset of keeping it for a "special occasion"! Just cannot bring myself to use it yet - just incase - and then I probably wouldn't recognise "the special occasion" even if it did happen.

[NZDavid]

Why store film in the Freezer?

 

It will survive global warming. Or any warming. Still very usable, and you can ignore use-by dates. Definitely no good keeping it at room temperature or leaving a batch in the car when it heats up -- I had to dump some.

 

But be sure to let it defrost naturally before using. Keeping it cool in the fridge as opposed to deep freezing is faster.

 

Sometimes nature does it for you. When I went cross-country skiing some years ago and stayed overnight in a mountain hut, I returned to the car to find cans of beer, bananas, and shampoo all frozen solid. I had taken film with me, or it too would have frozen.

 

Agfa RSX50 was one of my favorites, great neutral colors and looks brilliant projected. Just used my last roll.

[MPerson]

I tend to move the frozen film from the freezer to the fridge for 24-48 hours and then in to room temp overnight ready for use. That's if I remember to plan ahead!

[tobey bilek]

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Unbox and leave in the can. Half hour in your trousers will warm it quite well. The first few minutes are uncomfortable. Most of the time I can plan better.

[Guest ccmsosse]

Colors tend to shift if left at room temp or warmer for long periods, and b/w film can become cloudy. If film is frozen, these undesirable changes are slowed dramatically.

 

Is this true even before the expiration date??

[twittle]

Is this true even before the expiration date??

 

The process of color shift and clouding begin at the time of manufacture, but should be unnoticeable at least until the expiration date. Freezing well before expiration will extend the life of the film almost indefinitely, though.