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1000 35mm Rolls....

ic-racer

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My logbook keeps track of each film format individually. As much as I say I'm a medium format and large format photographer, I have still processed more 35mm than anything. First 35mm roll in the logbook is from 1973.
Works out to an average of about 20 rolls per year. Since I'm probably manic/depressive a year-by year bar graph would probably show zero some years and 200 other years.

 
I started numbering my rolls and sheets of film in 1971...the current roll of 35mm film in my camera is 3B20J3555, which is roll number 3555.
 
I do around 100 rolls a year, 80% are 35mm. I track it on the scanned film level - my folders are organized by year and camera, this way I know how many rolls I shot/scanned in a particular year.
 
I sort by subject, should have added year and roll number as well. All the years in the Air Force and working for the wires, somedays shot 10 to 20 rolls a day, but I don't own the negatives. Sad to think that the work I did in the Air Force was scrapped for silver after a time, I think after 8 years unless added to the history archives. I tired to get copies of my work from UPI and the Sacramento Union, in those days PJ did not get a byline, no way to sort by name.
 
Terrence Brennan said:
I started numbering my rolls and sheets of film in 1971...the current roll of 35mm film in my camera is 3B20J3555, which is roll number 3555.
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That is a lot, assuming, you, like me, processed all those. Again, mine is a processing log, so any E-6, C41 or Kodachorme is not included. Just B&W silver films.
My 120 log is only up to about 700, so even if I add those, in I'm less than 2000.
 
ic-racer said:
That is a lot, assuming, you, like me, processed all those. Again, mine is a processing log, so any E-6, C41 or Kodachorme is not included. Just B&W silver films.
My 120 log is only up to about 700, so even if I add those, in I'm less than 2000.
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Mine is a log of all films exposed; the vast majority of the films were 35mm B&W, although until about 2002 I used a lot of transparency film as well. About 10% of my rolls were 20- or 24-exposures, with the rest being 36-exposures, and about 20% were 120 rolls.
 
I try to process all my film in a timely manner. If I left behind 2,500 unprocessed rolls, they would probably go in a landfill. The Winogrand archive is said to contain about 20,000 proof sheets.
 
I only started keeping track of my film in 2004 when I was in college and started to process my own film. Lam nowhere close to 1000 rolls but since then I have shot and processed 500 rolls of 120, 430 sheets of either 4x5 or 8x10, and just 25 rolls of 35mm. It would be interesting to see where I would be if I had not left the film cameras sit and collect dust in the last 12 years until I decided to start shooting solely film again.
 
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