10 euro's for a roll of Delta 3200?
When I buy up film I'm adding it to my hoardBuy film when it is on sale and store it in the freezer. Thaw it out and make sure it is warm before opening. When you buy up film you are keeping it from the hoarders!
But don't hoard Delta 3200. Even in the freezer it doesn't keep well.
I didn’t know that. I don’t use it often, so I have a few rolls in the fridge. What’s a reasonable expectation of its life?
I didn’t know that. I don’t use it often, so I have a few rolls in the fridge. What’s a reasonable expectation of its life?
A couple of years s probably okay. A fridge slows down many chemical reactions, but not cosmic-ray exposure, which affects higher-speed films... well, faster!
Besides cosmic-rays, some stones or stone aggregates in concrete can emit sufficient radiation (average up to 0,516 × 10−4 C/kg/yr) to fog sensitive films like Delta 3200 after long storage (> 1 year) per ISO 18928:2013: Imaging materials — Unprocessed photographic films and papers — Storage practices.
A couple of years s probably okay.
Is a lead-lined box any good in such houses?
I don't know. I found some I had put in the freezer when new. It was only a few years (3-4 if my memory is correct) out of date when I tried a roll and it had pretty heavy fog, but was still useable with extra exposure. But with a high speed film you don't usually want to lose speed and gain grain, so I'd try to use it within it's expiration date.
Even the last few months, and Ilford prices jump. Saw bulk Delta 400 around $105-115 earlier this year. Thought to pick one up, now it's $135-140.. Please don't chase Kodak..
Mmm... I wonder how long it lasts in houses built of granite such as most in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. Is a lead-lined box any good in such houses?
pentaxuser
Thanks koraks and georg16nik. I think the practical answer on lead-lined boxes may be don't worry about them just use the D3200 quickly The cost to benefit ratio of lead lining for fast films is at best problematical. Indeed the diktat of financial prudence in general and from what I've seen of what HP5+ at 1600 and possibly 3200 can do, indicates that it is the one to use
Indeed over a lifetime and the way film prices are rising, especially fast films, it may be possible to save enough money by buying HP5+ instead of D3200 and then buying a lead lined box for nuclear Armageddon instead. That plus a reasonable supply of Andy O'Neill's favourite donuts, apple fritters and some Labatt lager might save me
pentaxuser
It's been a while since I washed an apple fritter down with a Labatts
That sounds particularly disgusting, actually. It'd make more sense to wash an apple fritter down with a cider.
lager is refreshing and alcoholic enough to be soporific
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