your stocking habits

[szazs]

My wonderful wife has been very patient so far. I'm keeping a couple of bricks of APX25-120, a few hundred sheets of APX100 - 4x5, a whole bunch of Ektachrome 64T - 4x5 I use for one particular client, a couple boxes FP4 5x7 for pinhole, and a couple rolls of Plus-X Aerographic film I bought on sale for reasons I haven't figured out yet, maybe I'll cut it in lil' strips and make 10,000 x 17.5mm rolls for a HIT camera someone gave me...

 

[sionnac]

Several boxes of 120, 127 and 35mm in the back of the vegetable bin, no room for all the Time Zero I just ordered.... must get storage bin. I'll go through it too fast I'm afraid (

 

[esanford]

I have about 200 rolls of tri-x between 35mm and 120 I stocked up when the "old TRI-x" was discontinued a couple of years ago because I did not want to test for a new develpment time (I only use one film for the same reason, and TRI-X works for everything that I photograph). Although I shoot 90% B&W, I also have about 40 rolls of Fuji Velvia 50 ASA. I just purchased them when I heard that it was discontinued. All of my film is kept in a freezer. My position (I could be wrong) is that film stops aging when it is frozen. So, I don't even look at the dates. I usually shoot a test roll out of a sealed brick. I've never had a problem with out of date film. If I were actively buying film now, I would never buy less then a box because I like to have the same lot #.

 

[roteague]

I've never seriously stocked film - I shoot it as fast as I get it. But, with the way things are going now, and the fact that I can buy very little (only B&W) locally, I guess I need to.

 

[Michael Kadillak]

I have a 23 cubic foot chest freezer stocked regularly with 4x5, 5x7, 8x10, 11x14, 8x20 and 12x20. I plan to get another chest freezer when the TMY is shipped. The numerous cases of 8x10, 10x12 and 20x24 Azo are in the basement where it is cool.

Life is short - play hard.

 

[Max Power]

I have my mini 'fridge from university down in the cedar closet. My wife hijacked it a few years ago to put actual food into (oh the shame!). When I built my darkroom two summers ago, I reclaimed the fridge.

Now it is properly stocked...Beer on the door racks and there are about 20 rolls of Fomapan 100 in 120 plus 2 100ft rolls of Delta 400 and 3 100ft rolls of Delta-100. Because I mail order, I tend to bulk order for as much as I can cram into my little bar 'fridge at any one time. I also keep an eye out for specials at places like Freestyle (that's where I got the Fomapan and the Delta-100 last time).

Kent

 

[Simon R Galley]

Dear Ed,

It varies but I guess I have about 500,000 rolls of film in my fridge at any one time, and lots of sheets, but only ILFORD...my personal favourite is and always has been HP5+ : And yes it is a very, very, very big fridge.........

Simon: ILFORD Photo / HARMAN technology Limited

 

[Dave Parker]

Dear Ed,

It varies but I guess I have about 500,000 rolls of film in my fridge at any one time, and lots of sheets, but only ILFORD...my personal favourite is and always has been HP5+ : And yes it is a very, very, very big fridge.........

Simon: ILFORD Photo / HARMAN technology Limited

AND you guys said I had a lot of stuff stocked up!!!!!!

Dave

 

[jd callow]

As much as I can afford whenever I can afford it. Currently 3 or 400 sheets of colour neg and equal number of chromes and slightly more B&W in 4x5. About 200 rolls of 120 and slightly less in 220 all chrome except about 40 rolls of 220 colour neg. I have about 20 rolls of 135 mostly colour neg with handful of b&w.

I need more but it will have to wait.

All of which is frozen.

 

[Petzi]

I buy roll films in cartons of 100 rolls so I get a better deal and have substantial amounts of film from the same emulsion.

I have a deep freezer now so I stock enough of each film for about 1 - 2 years. If it turns out I use less than expected, still no problem since it's frozen.

 

[battra92]

Well since I'm just a college student living at home until I get a better job and graduate I do not have full use of the large freezer as it is needed for things like meat and vegetables.

Anyway, What I do, if I can, is to get a bulk loaded roll of 100ft 35mm film and in one thing load up as many 36 exp rolls as I can and put them in a box and toss them in the freezer. All my 120 is in the freezer as I don't shoot MF much. Stuff like Fuji Superia print film and the like I don't even bother.

 

[Ole]

Let's see... No, on second thought I won't. It's full, and it's cold in there. I refuse to check what I have until I notice I'm running low on something!

Off the top of my head there are 50 rolls of 120 APX100, at least 500 sheets of 6.5x9cm APX 100, a few hundred of the same in 13x18cm and 9x12cm, several hundred FP4+ in 4x5" and 5x7", about 100 each of 4x5" and 13x18cm Ektachrome, 200 sheets of "assorted" 18x24cm film, 2 dozen Perutz Peromnia 13x18cm glass plates (exp. in the 1950's), two dozen Tmax 13x18cm plates, a dozen Slavich 9x12cm plates, a hundred or so various films in 24x30cm, and... ... ...