Hording - How big is your stash?

[ericdan]

How much hoarding is too much?
I currently have 440 rolls of 35mm film.
I shoot about 120 rolls a year, so this could last a few years.

How big is your stash?

 

[Sirius Glass]

[h=2]How big is your stash?[/h]

How much hoarding is too much? It can never be too much.

About 25% of my freezer and part of a refrigerator shelf.
​

 

[mooseontheloose]

I have a fridge in my darkroom that is the twin of the one in my kitchen (about 200L) and it holds all of my film, paper, and sometimes distilled water (for summer developing). Before my trip out to Europe this summer I think I counted about 400 rolls split evenly between 35mm and 120 - but size-wise (volume) I would have guessed half that. I have a lot of different infrared films in the freezer, whereas the fridge holds current stock I am more likely to shoot soon. I often end up stocking up on film over the year because I know I'll need it for an upcoming trip, and it helps spread out the cost. Also, even though I have 2 camera stores with a good selection of film nearby, I have been caught out because they don't happen to have any stock for the particular film I want when I want it.

 

[ericdan]

I loaded up on Provia 400X when it got discontinued this month.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

I don't like to have unused film for too long, so...

50 sheets of 4x5
~10 rolls of 120
~10 rolls of 35mm
1 roll of Agfa infrared, 35mm
2 cassettes of "Spy" (Minox) film
1 package each of Impossible SX-70, 600, 1200 film
1 remaining package of original Polaroid SX-70 film
3 remaining packages of original Polaroid 600 film
2 remaining packages of original Polaroid 1200 film

 

[mooseontheloose]

I loaded up on Provia 400X when it got discontinued this month.

It was already gone by the time I tried to do that. Luckily I stocked up before the summer. Hope to use some once the leaves start turning colour.

 

[ericdan]

That film during sunset is amazing.


Sent from Tapatalk

 

[mrred]

I just realized I still have 6 100' cans of aristra branded neopan 400 and 4 100' more cans of aristra branded plusx. I normally work off 400' cans of ORWO UN54 and N74+.



But my 120 stock is getting low.....

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

I only have what I can use in one month: 1 bulk roll.
So, I have one can of Kentmere 400 in use and one can of Foma Retropan 320 Soft in the other bulk loader ready for next month.

 

[Dr Croubie]

I've got enough film to both survive and document the entire Zombpocalypse. Too bad there's not enough food in my freezer to see me through it, all the film's in there.

Kitchen fridge:
Bottom freezer drawer: 120 sorted into 4 tubs of B+W/colour, new/expired. 135 (mostly the really special stuff: atp1.1, apx25, efke25), lots of 4x5s and my last 18 Astia quickloads. Rpx25 and rollei infrared I really really want to at least try out one day.

Freezer middle drawer: more 4x5s, quickloads and readyloads, RVP in 120, a 50' roll of apx25, and delta3200 (which I shoot a lot of, it doesn't stay frozen for long)

Fridge top shelf 135s, mostly rolls loaded from bulk (rollei retro100, fp4, provia400f), and a few slide (rvp, rsx, 100D).
Bottom left is an assortment of whatever I've unthawed to use and didn't re-freeze (and a roll of HP4 from 1978).
Bottom right is what I've shot this year and not yet developed, some 120 portra 400&800 from the Tour Down Under in January, lots of delta3200, and tri-x for when I ran out of delta 3200. Last time I got my shop to order in some Tmax dev they got Polymax instead, so still waiting to get some and dev all of that.

Bar fridge: all my 8x10s (and some Crystal Archive), fp100 and fp3000B, some of those old-fashioned 16-shot film-packs, a few more bulk rolls, 46mm Agfacolour, 70mm portra and konica something, some 50D and 500T ECN film (that works quite nicely in C41).
Lots of aerial films I got for cheap (especially when you average it out to a cost-per-sheet): a 5 1/2" 350' roll Aerial perforated Plus-x (tested working), 5 1/2" x 20' and 26' of tri-x and plus-x, 9 1/2" x 125' rolls TMAX100 and Ektachrome Electronic Output (tested the tmax, not the ektachrome yet).
More 4x5 random stuff, rvp quickloads.
In the freezer compartment there's also at least 2 or 3 100' 135 bulk rolls and a bag of (old style) tri-x from bulk, plus 10-15 boxes of ektachrome 4x5s from 1979 I was going to shoot in my travelwide and x-process, but I can't get it open without defrosting the whole thing.

I think the funniest thing about the bar fridge is that the boxes of Panatomic X and Tri X (2 1/4 x 3 1/4) say "develop before 1941" which is even a year before my dad was born, and the Coopers Sparkling longneck says "best after 2001" (it spent a decade in the cellar).

And my personal favourite, behind all the coats. The label says 'agfa orthochromatic duplicating film, 42in x 100ft'. Never even opened it yet. One day I'll build a pinhole camera big enough to take it without cutting it down.

(and there's all the paper under my bed, including some 20x24" kodalith for another pinhole camera I haven't built yet).

 

[georg16nik]

Doc, you might wanna use some zip locks / freezer bags for these and pack them in 40% to 60% RH room area before hit the cold storage.

 

[removed account4]

several hundred sheets and rolls of 8x10 - 4x5, 135-120

maybe 6000 sheets of assorted brands and sized papers 3x2 - 20x16 rc+fb
a few kilos of foma and ag+ emulsion

all estimates, i won't buy anymore film or paper&emulsion unless it is for a client