Where do you buy your film?
Sep 26, 2022 11:18:36 #
LLC
Loc: Ontario, Canada
TommiRulz wrote:
About once a year I break out my film cameras and goof around. This year the price of film is CRAZY !!! Anyone have tips on where to buy film???? THANKS
For older cameras / film formats try:
https://filmforclassics.com/products/
Sep 26, 2022 13:26:15 #
rehess wrote:
In the Age of Film, I kept all my film in the freezer except what I expected to use very soon. Now, I use it as soon as I can, then get it developed “immediately”.
I was told that film should not kept for no longer that 1 years. That was told to me 40 years ago, I still go by that rule. Now 40 years later is that still true, I don't known.
Sep 26, 2022 13:43:21 #
Bigmike1
Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.
Film has just become too expensive for me to deal with. I have a roll of color film that was exposed some years ago and when I began looking for a place to have it developed I discovered a place online but it would cost me at least $50 for developing and printing. I think film companies and film developers are sticking it to photographers. There is really no reason to demand such high prices. I haven't shot film in at least 20 years even though I have a number of film cameras. I only take them out once in a while and handle them and remember the old days.
Sep 26, 2022 14:15:00 #
spaceytracey
Loc: East Glacier Park, MT
CHG_CANON wrote:
What film do you shoot? br br Since you last had ... (show quote)
Oh, Velvia 50! COOL!
Sep 26, 2022 14:16:08 #
spaceytracey
Loc: East Glacier Park, MT
CHG_CANON wrote:
For new film, I use mail order: primarily B&H, also KEH. I primarily shoot expired film I purchase in bulk, most from sales here on UHH. I just get it and put in my freezer, along with some of the fresh I know I won't shoot before the expire date. What I think I'll shoot in the next 6 months, I keep defrosted in the fridge.
Why expired film?
Sep 26, 2022 14:24:00 #
Bigmike1 wrote:
Film has just become too expensive for me to deal ... (show quote)
What? Pay $50.00 to developing and printing. Just three weeks ago I pay $15.08 at Walmart to have a roll of 36 develop and printing. Don't sit there and remember the "old days. Take those film cameras out and use them. Last Saturday I was at a model train show the camera I use was a Kodak's Retina Reflex III with Retina-Xenon f:1.9/50mm lens. Film was 200 speed film. I have not taking the film out to Walmart yet, I do that later on this week, by the way my house is 15 miles one way from Walmart. A few mouths back I get 3 rolls of 400 speed with 36 ex. for $31.24 at Walmart.
Sep 26, 2022 15:21:35 #
Sep 26, 2022 15:21:45 #
Bigmike1 wrote:
Film has just become too expensive for me to deal ... (show quote)
Our local camera store sells film at decent prices and does C41 processing every evening at reasonable prices. I don’t look beyond them.
Sep 26, 2022 16:42:14 #
spaceytracey wrote:
Why expired film?
I can buy it at $1 to $3 per roll, to take it off someone's hands. If kept on good shape before it reaches my freezer, I can shoot some (many) types of film that no longer exist in the market.
Sep 26, 2022 16:52:01 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
I can buy it at $1 to $3 per roll, to take it off someone's hands. If kept on good shape before it reaches my freezer, I can shoot some (many) types of film that no longer exist in the market.
The problem is in knowing what kind of treatment it received. Vendors on eBay sometimes ‘shade’ the truth. Often I take once-in-a-lifetime shots ……. in the early days I lost several shots because the developer mishandled film, so I am hesitant to take any extra chances.
Sep 26, 2022 17:01:47 #
rehess wrote:
The problem is in knowing what kind of treatment it received. Vendors on eBay sometimes ‘shade’ the truth. Often I take once-in-a-lifetime shots ……. in the early days I lost several shots because the developer mishandled film, so I am hesitant to take any extra chances.
That's why I don't buy my expired film from ebay ...
Sep 26, 2022 20:00:18 #
Bill 45 wrote:
I was told that film should not kept for no longer that 1 years. That was told to me 40 years ago, I still go by that rule. Now 40 years later is that still true, I don't known.
Film "ripens" and then deteriorates. Professional films are at peak sensitivity around zero to three months from manufacture, and amateur films are at peak sensitivity around 6-12 months from manufacture. By the expiration date on the box, it might have lost 1/3 of an f/stop. That is significant for slide films, but relatively insignificant for negative films.
The main thing you can do to preserve the life of unexposed film is to protect it from all forms of radiation from 1 GHz radio waves all the way to cosmic rays. Keep it in a refrigerator in the original SEALED container, or freeze it if you intend to keep it for a long time. Wrapping the original boxes in aluminum foil inside plastic containers is often recommended.
Heat (infrared, and microwave radiation from all sources including cell phones and WiFi), and light, UV, X-Rays, Gamma Rays, and Cosmic Rays can all fog film over time. Heat fog is particularly bad because heat goes right through the packaging. Static electricity can also fog film.
Faster films fog faster than slower films.
Sep 26, 2022 20:16:48 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
That's why I don't buy my expired film from ebay ...
Decades ago, I bought a lot of outdated film from Freestyle. I never had any problems with it. They are still around, doing a good business. But most of what they sell is fresh, now, since film is so scarce. They're back-ordered on a lot of stocks right now.
Sep 26, 2022 20:34:42 #
Sep 26, 2022 22:23:46 #
This is probably gone now. Does Fuji still process E-6? I use to buy the processing envelopes to mail the film to Fujifilm for processing the slides. If not, who does E-6 processing at a reasonable cost? I found 2 rolls of Velvia 50 in the freezer and want to try them out. Is 10 years too old?
The Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros film is my favorite modern BW film in MF and 35mm. Under controlled development, the results are always the same. I bought a bunch when it was re-released and put it the deep-freeze.
The Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros film is my favorite modern BW film in MF and 35mm. Under controlled development, the results are always the same. I bought a bunch when it was re-released and put it the deep-freeze.
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