Film time capsule

[mehguy]

had this idea that you could make a time capsule using film. what i mean is to take pictures of your life currently, put a date on the canister, throw it in a fridge and dont develop it until that date arrives.

 

[frjack]

Mine would be a bit boring, until I get moved to Anglesey. I may as well take shots of Magnum (my dog) taking a dump in different places. Then again, if someone else found it, it could be "the life and times of a dog crap analyst"...

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[Prest_400]

I involuntarily have done it. For a year I left some slide film in the fridge awaiting to be developed. I think that I currently have a couple of rolls from 2011 exposed but undeveloped.

I often think that film photography itself is a time capsule between the exposition time until development.
I'm currently away from my country. I sent my lab a few rolls a couple of weeks ago and they still haven't got them developed (Wedding season time...). One I shot slowly from April till july, the other was underwater shots from a disposable.
It will be nice to receive now photos from Spring and good summertime memories.

 

[pentaxuser]

It sounds like a great idea but I have no idea how long an exposed film in a fridge will keeps its latent image. My only experience is a Verichrome Pan film that sat in a camera for about 40 years and not even in a fridge and the film when exposed was pretty good.

It would seem that Pan F+ is one to avoid as its latent image retention is allegedly poor but recently I saw a post on another forum that suggested a 20 year old exposed Pan F ( not the plus) developed fine

pentaxuser

 

[Gerald C Koch]

It sounds like a great idea but I have no idea how long an exposed film in a fridge will keeps its latent image. My only experience is a Verichrome Pan film that sat in a camera for about 40 years and not even in a fridge and the film when exposed was pretty good.

It would seem that Pan F+ is one to avoid as its latent image retention is allegedly poor but recently I saw a post on another forum that suggested a 20 year old exposed Pan F ( not the plus) developed fine

pentaxuser

+1

You could also develop the film but not make prints. Then store the negatives archivally until the indicated time.

 

[ic-racer]

Why do you not want to develop it before placing it in storage? Latent image is not an archival medium.