Ever been this far behind?

[MattKing]

One important tip:

Don't assume that it is best to develop the rolls "oldest first"

Do develop your current work as you shoot it (so the backlog doesn't grow), plus a few rolls from your backlog each time.

 

[MattKing]

Not sure where you get those figures from. A litre of Hypam or Ilford Rapid Fixer at 1+4 is fine for 24 rolls of 35mm or 120 film. Films and RC papers can tolerate far higher levels of silver than fibre based papers without affecting archival permanence.

Ian

+1 - but I use 16 rolls per 1.25 liters just to be extra sure.

 

[cliveh]

As you describe yourself as a 4" X 5" shooter (I guess you mean 5" X 4"), how come all the films you display are not.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

news flsh!:
it's not about quantity, because a camera is not a machine gun.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I dump TF-4 after 15 and I keep track. I figure that it's a relatively cheap fixer and there's no reason to tempt fate.

 

[BrianShaw]

I've never been that far behind. I tend to process fast... but I might have a decade-worth of negs and proof sheets that still need sorting and proper storing.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I never had a backlog until I had kids. I shot and immediately developed because I wanted to see. However, I don't have the luxury now to disappear whenever I want to develop film anymore...so I'm expecting to have a backlog. I'm going to try to keep it to a minimum, though, by buying the Mod54 processor and a Paterson 3 roll drum after Christmas with reels so that I can handle 2 120 and 3 135 at a time, plus the 6 sheets of 4x5 at a time...and I'm working on a homemade solution for 5x7. I have the idea, I just have to see if I can get it made.

 

[kuparikettu]

Well, can't speak for polyglot but I regularly come back from my trips (1-4 weeks) with 20-100 rolls.

Oh boy, and I thought I was shooting lots of film when I shot five rolls of 35mm on a one week trip!

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

I manage around 30 rolls/week of 35mm when traveling. But I take the 35mm to Costco when I have a huge volume like that, and that solves the price problem. The 120 I take to a better quality local lab that will follow instructions on how to process stuff.

 

[LJSLATER]

news flsh!:
it's not about quantity, because a camera is not a machine gun.

http://soverf2repair.webs.com/Recorder_4000.htm

 

[pbromaghin]

So glad this thread happened. I was getting stressed and stopped shooting for a few weeks when mine got to 30 rolls. Finding a Patterson System 4 which will do 5 rolls of 35mm or 3 120 really helped.

 

[polyglot]

Wow....where'd you go? What was the total cost in film and processing?

5-week honeymoon through Dubai, Prague, St Petersburg, Moscow, trans-Siberian rail, Mongolia, Beijing, Guilin. It was about 40% B&W ($30), 20% E6 ($80, half a Fuji kit), 40% C41 ($60, half a Fuji kit again). So about $200 for soup and $600 for film. And that's a tiny fraction of the $20k travel costs. Then there's the ~$500 spent on printing (3 of 20x40" canvases, some albums, and now I'm working through wet-printing the best which will take a couple years.

This is 6x7 though so its only 1000 frames; it's not like I was machine-gunning 35mm. I'd be lost without my Jobo though...

 

[rkmiec]

Got 4 more rolls of 35mm done tonight. The apx 100 that I shot over 10 years ago look absolutely fantastic. The tmax 100 that was a little newer did not. Very faint images,a couple good images. Been so long I can't remember how I was shooting them so they could be age or technique. I have more from that tmax group so I will be able to see if there is some difference. Interesting that the apx when I dumped the developer is was black as night and I was worried. Sad that now I did not get to use more of that film,looks wonderful.

 

[jvo]

wow

DEVELOPING PARTY!!!!!!

i got the chips, whose bringing the beer?

 

[NedL]

Not sure where you get those figures from. A litre of Hypam or Ilford Rapid Fixer at 1+4 is fine for 24 rolls of 35mm or 120 film. Films and RC papers can tolerate far higher levels of silver than fibre based papers without affecting archival permanence.
Ian

Thanks! I was reading this thread and starting to get worried. I've got 500ml of Ilford Rapid Fixer and was planning to develop 12 rolls of 120 and then just assume it's time to replace it. I think I got the 12 from the datasheet, but don't recall for sure. For 135 it's a 250ml bottle 1+4 and I've been replacing after 6 rolls. I do the same with paper... I just keep track of the number of prints and replace when I reach what it says it can do on the bottle.

 

[Ricus.stormfire]

Oh yes, and I still am... 20+ rolls of exposed, but unprocessed slide film in the fridge, some dating back to 2006. Not sure when, if ever, I will get to process these. The lab I used to use for E6 stopped that a long time ago (late 2005), and even yesterday informed that they will not process my C41 120 films anymore (they can, but won't)

 

[eclarke]

Yep, I have about 130 rolls of undeveloped 120 right now..

 

[munz6869]

I brought home 100 rolls of Neopan, 15 rolls of Tri-x and around 80 sheets of TXP from my last holiday... Processing took a while, but printing will take forever Joy.

Marc!

 

[ChristopherCoy]

I'm more amazed at the fact that some of you shoot more than one roll a week... hell more than one roll a month!

When I shoot film, its a carefully thought out process. I have to plan how many rolls I'm going to shoot, which rolls I'll shoot at which location, and then as I'm shooting I have to carefully plan on each shot and whether or not I'll "waste" that frame on that image. I can't bring myself to just click away as I do with memory cards.

 

[brian steinberger]

That's how I feel with all the great negatives I have which deserve to be printed and probably never will be!!

 

[bushpig]

I'm not too backlogged. I've been working on the black and white and haven't had much time to shoot lately, so I'm almost caught up on my black and white (I have 6 rolls of 120 left). I'm almost out of HC-110. I have the powder to make some Ilford Perceptol, but I've never used it, so I might wait to

I have one roll of E-6 and between 15 and 20 rolls of C41 (120 and 220) that I need to have developed.

 

[Chris Lange]

My worst back logs have been between 30 and 40 rolls...I try to be fairly on top of things when it comes to processing in a timely manner.