Lucky finds you've forgotten about in the freezer...

2bits · Jan 9, 2015

Digging deeper, I found Jimmy Hoffa!

ciniframe · Jan 9, 2015

I keep rediscovering a 100 ft. roll of Pan F in the fridge. Probably 10 years past date but I have so many irons in the fire I just cannot seem to get around to putting it into an empty loader I have. I mean really, ISO 50 in the winter in western Washington! Too grey, just way too gray. I could take a color picture outside my apartment and you would think it's B&W, the only color would be a red & white 'DO NOT ENTER' sign.

miha · Jan 9, 2015

Two 120 rolls of Tungsten Ektachrome 64.

anfenglin · Jan 9, 2015

five rolls of Kodachrome....

Thomas Bertilsson · Jan 9, 2015

This thread prompted me to go look in the freezer to see what I might have forgotten about.

Lo and behold, a brick of Kodak Elite Chrome 100!
Cross processing galore awaits as I just got another 2 liter C-41 home developing kit.

Roger Cole · Jan 9, 2015

Thomas Bertilsson said:
This thread prompted me to go look in the freezer to see what I might have forgotten about.

Lo and behold, a brick of Kodak Elite Chrome 100!
Cross processing galore awaits as I just got another 2 liter C-41 home developing kit.

Sirius Glass · Jan 9, 2015

I do not buy Lucky film so I cannot have a Lucky find in my freezer.

Roger Cole · Jan 9, 2015

Capitalized only because it was the first word of the title, Sirius.

How about "fortuitous" finds then? You made any o'dem?

Sirius Glass · Jan 9, 2015

Roger Cole said:
Capitalized only because it was the first word of the title, Sirius.

How about "fortuitous" finds then? You made any o'dem?

Unlike others my memory works so I do not get surprised by "finds".

ambaker · Jan 9, 2015

While not a freezer, at least for six months of the year... We had a 16x20 storage locker in Idaho. When we left, we agreed that only items that had monetary or sentimental worth, would be placed inside.

Eight years later, we returned to remove our goods.

There were three major categories.
1. Things we had long anticipated getting back.
2. Things we had forgotten we had, and had repurchased, some as late as the week earlier. (Circular saw)
3. Things we had not only forgotten, but could not remember why we thought it important enough to store and pay rent on for eight years.

#3 was, by far, the largest category. We were in our thirties during this time, so it wasn't an issue of aging memories...

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Roger Cole · Jan 9, 2015

My memory is fine too but I have enough important details in my life, which I remember just fine, without cluttering it up with the precise contents of a box of assorted film I bought mostly on a whim some two years ago. I also don't normally shoot transparency film in 120 so wasn't as likely to recall it. I knew I had 220 Optima 400 though.

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Sirius Glass · Jan 9, 2015

I get lucky in other places than in the freezer. :devil:

RattyMouse · Jan 9, 2015

I took a freezer census today. 15 rolls of Astia 120F in 220 size, 5 rolls of Astia 100F in 120 size, and 90 rolls of Neopan 400 in 135 size. Nothing new there but at least I know the numbers now.

Alan Gales · Jan 10, 2015

I wonder how many people have recently found Kodachrome in their freezers?

Sirius Glass · Jan 10, 2015

Alan Gales said:
I wonder how many people have recently found Kodachrome in their freezers?

I would not even photograph my ex with Kodachrome even the things were good.

Alan Gales · Jan 10, 2015

Sirius Glass said:
I would not even photograph my ex with Kodachrome even the things were good.

No love for Kodachrome, huh?

I used to shoot a lot of Kodachrome 25 back in the 80's with my Contax 139. I owned a Beseler enlarger and printed Cibachrome 8x10's.

I was a big fan of Pete Turner in those days and liked my colors bright!

Jay Decker · Jan 11, 2015

Went through the color film before Christmas and found these that these made it into the freezer but not onto the inventory list:

1. Many rolls of Ektachrome in 35mm, 120, and 220.
2. 50 rolls (now 47 rolls) of 120 Agfa Optima 100.
3. 20 rolls of 35mm Fuji 160s
4. 47 rolls of 220 Portra 800
5. 5 rolls of 120 Fuji 800Z
6. 10 rolls of 120 Fuji 400H
7. Two boxes of 5x7 Portra 400

I've never shot Ektachrome. Does anyone here know if it has been frozen whether it is typically good past the expiration date?

Found out that the Optima 100 is good enough...

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