Friend's pile of Undeveloped Film. Good Grief!

[Cholentpot]

I believe Irfanview might be able to do that for you. It's free on the web.

I have Irfanview on my PC. How does one use this to adjust negatives?

 

[braxus]

Takes me maybe 5 mins to scan one roll 35mm 36 exp.

My flatbed is faster, but the results are soft. I use my film scanner, which is extremely slow to use. But the results are almost as good as a lab. I also scan at 5000 dpi, so that is part of it.

 

[pentaxuser]

I am not saying I let my films pile up undeveloped but last night I developed a film and found one negative with an old-fashioned street newspaper seller in it. The headline on the boards by him was: "Mafeking Relieved"

pentaxuser

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

In a single day, I've seldom used more than one B&W film roll.
Very few times, by night I've had two or three to develop, only if I finished a street one and did one or two for a 120 session.
I develop them immediately, and I don't even like to develop two at the same time.
I guess I don't hit the shutter too much, and I enjoy development too.
If a film has been in a camera for more than two or three weeks, I prefer to test something to reach the end and then I develop.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

I have Irfanview on my PC. How does one use this to adjust negatives?

Make sure all the Irfan plugins are loaded from their web page. Then select Batch Conversion where you can select any number of photos to do a mass conversion including cropping. I never tried cropping but have used it for changing a bunch of photos for all the file names, resizing pixels for the web, etc. Good luck
Alan

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Irfanview also has a scan function. Never tried it. Anyone ever use it?

 

[Cholentpot]

Make sure all the Irfan plugins are loaded from their web page. Then select Batch Conversion where you can select any number of photos to do a mass conversion including cropping. I never tried cropping but have used it for changing a bunch of photos for all the file names, resizing pixels for the web, etc. Good luck
Alan

My issue is, I had feed the film under my DSLR rig so each shot is slightly different then the next one. If I had some sort of transport method I could be able to have the exact frame for each shot. As of now I just use a clamshell negative holder for a scanner.

 

[MattKing]

Irfanview also has a scan function. Never tried it. Anyone ever use it?

Are you sure that it doesn't just initiate a scanning program that you already have on your computer - once you tell Irfanview which program you want to be connected that way?
I have at least two image editors that do that.

 

[ic-racer]

I process the film right away. Usually no problem with a Jobo processor.
Then the negatives pile up for editing on the light table and finally, for the good negatives, printing.

This picture shows about 10 months of negatives that I had to go through prior to a printing session back in 2013. That might have been the worst. I try to print more frequently, so that many negatives don't build up at once.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

I think the most I ever had stack up was in the 80 range. These days I usually develop film as soon as I have a tank full. The first road trip I ever did I think I had like 60 and only one two reel tank, and it was plastic so I had to let it dry in between. Basically I could only develop two rolls a day. That got real old real quick. Now many years later I have tons of tanks and reels, JOBO and Kindermann, so a big stack of film doesn't seem that daunting. If I filled them all I could probably do like 30 rolls at a time, shotgun style. One after the other.

Scanning, especially 35mm, is easy peasy. I have a Nikon 4000. Just stick the film in there and come back later. That is the main reason why I haven't switched to camera scanning. Overall the time it takes with the Nikon is more, but the time I have to spend occupied with scanning is far less since I don't have to sit there and fiddle around with it.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

My issue is, I had feed the film under my DSLR rig so each shot is slightly different then the next one. If I had some sort of transport method I could be able to have the exact frame for each shot. As of now I just use a clamshell negative holder for a scanner.

Oh. Can't help you with that.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Are you sure that it doesn't just initiate a scanning program that you already have on your computer - once you tell Irfanview which program you want to be connected that way?
I have at least two image editors that do that.

I use Epsonscan to scan to tiff files and then just import them into LR. I believe LR and Elements that I also have also scans but why bother? I never tried Irfanview or the other two programs to scan.

 

[sterioma]

I pile up C-41 as the chemistry has a limited shelf life once mixed. So I tend to do a bunch over the span of a few days. That also means I don't shoot that much C-41...
B&W is usually done within a day or two of shooting.

Exactly this. I only have a backlog of a handful of films up to a few months old that eventually I will batch process together.

 

[gone]

A long time ago I read a book on Edward Weston and Tina Modotti in Mexico. It mentioned that for a time they would go out together for a day of shooting, come home, develop the film, print the negs, and have something to hang on the wall, all on the same day.

At least I think it was Weston and Modotti. The important thing is, this would absolutely be the fastest way to get one's photography to a higher level. They were using 6x6 cameras and probably sheet film. 35mm roll film should be even easier. Assuming that a roll of 36 exp film might have just a few, honest keepers on it, it really wouldn't take long to have prints if your darkroom was set up and ready to go.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

A long time ago I read a book on Edward Weston and Tina Modotti in Mexico. It mentioned that for a time they would go out together for a day of shooting, come home, develop the film, print the negs, and have something to hang on the wall, all on the same day.

At least I think it was Weston and Modotti. The important thing is, this would absolutely be the fastest way to get one's photography to a higher level. They were using 6x6 cameras and probably sheet film. 35mm roll film should be even easier. Assuming that a roll of 36 exp film might have just a few, honest keepers on it, it really wouldn't take long to have prints if your darkroom was set up and ready to go.

My wife claims we've run out of wall space.

 

[Sirius Glass]

My wife claims we've run out of wall space.

Time to put on an addition with lots of wall space.

 

[Agulliver]

At this time I am only developing B&W. Colour I give to a local mini-lab. If I were developing C41 at home I would likely wait until I had a clear half day and 10 rolls to develop...for the sake of costs and chemistry shelf life.

With B&W, most of the time I develop within a couple of days of shooting. I just need a clear hour or so, to get out my tank and stuff, load the film, develop, hang to dry and wash up my equipment. I might scan it that day, or another time. The only exception is if I am away on holiday, when I'll likely have a few rolls needing development when I get back and I might well choose a moment when the kitchen is completely tidy and I can get my Jobo extension out, or use two tanks to develop two different kinds of film. Even then, I rarely wait more than a week or so.

For scanning, my Epson flat bed can do 12 35mm negs at a time and the tower PC I use is in the living room so I load up the neg carrier and let it do it's thing....usually takes a good hour or so to do a 36 exposure roll depending on scan resolution and whether it can detect the frames accurately (which depends on subject matter). But that's OK because it's in the living room where I am probably hanging out with the wife.

 

[mshchem]

I've had my Jobo CPP3 running 8 rolls of 35mm at a time. Finally got through it all. Just in time I'm reorganizing my darkroom. Weather shifted here, went from nice warm short sleeve weather to snow in a manner of 3 days. Colder weather going forward