For sale is one fridge-stored box of 25 pieces of 12x20 inch Efke 25 film, expired July 2008. It is left over from when I was first experimenting with my pinhole camera. In the end, I decided to use panchromatic paper instead of a 25 speed film with bad reciprocity, so this second box has just sat in the fridge since 2008.
Here is the bad news. The box has some water damage. There are a few drops on the top that did not penetrate the cardboard at all, and the bottom got hit pretty badly and has some mildew. I opened it up to check on the film. No, I did not do it like those E-Bay sellers that expose their film/paper to show you that it is still good. I opened the box in a very dark room with a deep red safelight far away from the film, and I kept the bag completely closed and the box mostly closed. None of the water touched the film, only the black plastic bag that it is in, and only in an isolated area near the middle of the bag. There is one thin stripe of mold a few inches long on the outside of the bag, and that is it. The box itself took 90 percent of the damage. What I would do is just take the bag out, wipe off the mold, and put the bag in one of your empty boxes.
This cost me about $170 at Freestyle if I remember correctly. I'd like to start by asking $100 O.B.O. shipped, or trade for equipment or film. If this seems far out of line to you, make an offer, but I think it is in the ballpark since shipping is included.
Thank you.
P.S. All 25 of the original sheets are included. I did not open this until I checked on the water damage.
Here is the bad news. The box has some water damage. There are a few drops on the top that did not penetrate the cardboard at all, and the bottom got hit pretty badly and has some mildew. I opened it up to check on the film. No, I did not do it like those E-Bay sellers that expose their film/paper to show you that it is still good. I opened the box in a very dark room with a deep red safelight far away from the film, and I kept the bag completely closed and the box mostly closed. None of the water touched the film, only the black plastic bag that it is in, and only in an isolated area near the middle of the bag. There is one thin stripe of mold a few inches long on the outside of the bag, and that is it. The box itself took 90 percent of the damage. What I would do is just take the bag out, wipe off the mold, and put the bag in one of your empty boxes.
This cost me about $170 at Freestyle if I remember correctly. I'd like to start by asking $100 O.B.O. shipped, or trade for equipment or film. If this seems far out of line to you, make an offer, but I think it is in the ballpark since shipping is included.
Thank you.
P.S. All 25 of the original sheets are included. I did not open this until I checked on the water damage.
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