Storage of "in use" film?

[Twiggy]

Okay, so I got it, dark place, in room temprature.

I'll probably put the camera in a black bag, and then in a cupboard.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Okay, so I got it, dark place, in room temperature.

I'll probably put the camera in a black bag, and then in a cupboard.

The is good as long as the air can circulate around the camera.

 

[Paul Howell]

The camera is light tight, well unless you have bad seals, no need for either, but if you think it is best I would advise against putting in a bag then a cupboard unless you add a few bags of silica to control humidity. In 60 years of photography I have always kept my working camera with film in camera bag, unzipped, without any issues whatsoever. I have worked in California, southern and northern, Southeast Asia, Southern Europe and Africa, working camera in camera bag room temp. The only exception was working the North Sea, kept bag in zip lock bag with silica, bag in mud room, on a platform a changing room near out door temps so the camera lens would not frost up going from warm indoor air to cold outdoor temps.

 

[Sirius Glass]

In some areas storing cameras and lenses in leather lens cases or camera cases can cause mold to grow. Therefore I if I were I a damp climate, I would not store lenses or camera in leather bags. Since I am in a dry climate, I could store my lenses in cameras in the leather bags, but I have still choosen use the leather camera bags only for transportation.

 

[Twiggy]

Alright thanks, cup board, with no bag.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

The camera is light tight, well unless you have bad seals, no need for either, but if you think it is best I would advise against putting in a bag then a cupboard unless you add a few bags of silica to control humidity. In 60 years of photography I have always kept my working camera with film in camera bag, unzipped, without any issues whatsoever. I have worked in California, southern and northern, Southeast Asia, Southern Europe and Africa, working camera in camera bag room temp. The only exception was working the North Sea, kept bag in zip lock bag with silica, bag in mud room, on a platform a changing room near out door temps so the camera lens would not frost up going from warm indoor air to cold outdoor temps.

Won't it be more likely to frost up going from cold air to warm air when you go back inside? Inside is where all the humidity is and the cold lens will cause it to fog up.

 

[koraks]

frost up

Depends on whether you're talking about freezing (literally 'frosting up') or condensation ('frosting up' visually, but not from a physics point of view). I agree that the latter is the more common problem. Flash-freezing is really difficult to accomplish in a spontaneous manner, and even if it happens, deposition of ice isn't guaranteed.

 

[Paul Howell]

Winter the north sea, any condensation on the lens will flash freeze once outdoors. When from going from a changing room to the platform deck the camera is cold enough to see if there is any frost on the lens, including the lens in the bag that I would clean before going outside. I tired to wipe the lens before going out from the warmer parts of the platform still had a bit of frost I had to clean up, more difficult on the platform in the wind, and like frost on a windshield had to be rubbed off. Lens caps helped, still surprised by how much condensation seeps in. The humidity inside the platforms was quite high.