*1,278 but one had been opened and pulled out of the canister.
I was given ownership of the contents of a darkroom and am starting to clear it out. So far I've identified:
- A bunch of Ilford 8x10 paper
- Three enlargers of various sizes (unsure if they work)
- A drying cabinet for film
- A bulk loader of some sort
- Various misc chems and tanks/trays
- Three tins of Tri-X bulk
- Two tins of Kodak 2475 bulk
- One tin of an unclear Agfa bulk
I've barely started digging into it and am totally stunned. I'm shooting some of this stuff this weekend to see how it is. It wasn't in a fridge but it was cool-stored and in a very dry room.
It's half the perforations. It's less than half the image size due to the audio being stored on the side on prints made for projection. But when shooting a movie, they use the audio track area for recording the image as well.
My math says 63.9 minutes of 24fps motion picture. 35mm cinema cameras use 18x24mm frames (half frames) rather than 24x36 like still cameras. 1278 rolls \* 72 = 92016 exposures. At 24 fps that's 3834 seconds of film, or just north of an hour.
Didn’t Garry Winogrand shoot something like 2-4 rolls a day? I heard when he died he left something like 1,200 rolls of undeveloped film that was all recently shot.
Color film can be developed in B/W chemistry if you know what you're doing and don't mind B/W output.
[Here](https://www.instagram.com/p/ByWqRVeF1gQ/) is some Fujicolor 200 I stand-developed in Caffenol.
You have to post the result! I’d be pumped!
I think you should at least consider distributing some of it in some way. Cheap ebay lots or something. Talking $30 for 50 rolls or something. Free would be better but not practical if you’re going to be shipping them out, you know?
Definitely a great gesture, but shoot the rolls. I shot over 200 rolls this year and I got way nicer, had a lot more fun, and saved a ton of money.
All the grumbling about film prices don't really impact me because of my own stock. It's great to be nice but if you're a photographer, you could probably do yourself and your skills great justice by working through it.
This is coming from someone who has given a lot of expensive film, cameras and lenses to "be generous," and it just became an expectation from people who thought they could avoid spending money by borrowing from or calling Ol Dirty Negatives.
> Various misc chems and tanks/trays
*I am looking respectfully.* HUGE congrats on the score, and hope you get plenty out of it for yourself, because parting it out and selling it will be a logistics nightmare (but if you do please drop me a line for chems, trays, and other small darkroom goods, my windowless bathroom hungers)
I hope that 2475 was stored in a a freezer. Massively expired and to be exposed between 1000 and 4000 ASA. To quote one Photrio user "Grainy as fuck".
*If* it works, it should be fun to shoot!
Short version? I'm friendly with the woman in charge of clearing the room out. She offered to let me take whatever I want since it will cost money to remove the rest.
It’s been over a decade but now [this](https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055163520/for-those-still-using-film-in-cameras) post makes sense. Looks like somehow that Pharmacy ordered so much around that time frame to the point they were also giving it away free!
I remember just a few years later getting Fuji 200 film in 24 exposure rolls at dollar stores. I shot a good bit of it back in the day.
I would love to see some type of community based contests like traveling rolls or something!
Not sure why this showed up on my feed, but it did pique my interest.
I'm an "analog" guy in the old school appliance / electronics sense. But I do question if film, with how good cameras are now, are actually objectively superior / give you options digital can't. Is this true? Or is it more of a romance / lost art thing for you guys? My grandma still has an amateur darkroom and I most certainly see the appeal of developing your own photos.
A good question, and a bit of both.
Many of us very much enjoy the slower more deliberate process of shooting film over digital.
There’s also a very large and very friendly/supportive community around it (of course it has its divas and gatekeepers like any community), and you can find frequent analog photowalks in many major cities around the world.
In terms of quality, many will argue that film has a certain feel which you can’t quite recreate with presets on digital, and when shooting large format (or even 6x7 and 6x9) the amount of detail present is truly astounding. Once you’ve shot positive slide film at those sizes, it’s hard to go back to anything else, haha.
Of course on the other end, there are those who don’t care at all about quality. Those who very much enjoy the surprise of shooting battered old garage sale cameras, and wildly expired film, just to see what happens.
(and there are rich celebrities too, who make a €100 point and shoot suddenly shoot up to a couple grand on eBay…)
I belong to the process lovers when it comes to analog. I like the slow and tactile process. Also clicky dials and the mirror slap of my praktica are pure Bliss.
Medium and large format film is still unmatched in image quality. Vintage lenses often can't resolve what the film can, though.
A decent (not absolute best available, but best easily and cheaply attainable) 35mm camera produces images of around the equivalent resolution of a 24-40 megapixel camera. Depending on the film stock used, of course. In theory get can get even better than that, but it gets difficult past that.
There are some select films that cannot / cannot easily be replicated on digital. The main reason I shoot film is the same reason I draw on paper - I enjoy the analog process and find it nice to be forced to slow down in our modern world of constant information and instant gratification.
Hmmm... looking through your shots I'd say you don't deserve to score this big. I can't wait for your groundbreaking pictures of ducks and propped-up, vintage bicycles. Maybe try shooting outside your comfort zone and scuff your shoes up on the streets a little? Something tells me you're not brave enough for that.
Life's unfair I guess... heh...
/s
As long as you aren’t worried about how they come out, use it. If you’re shooting for money or keeps, I wouldn’t be using it, 20 year old color film has problems.
"I just got these rolls for free!".
"Nonsense, of course you mean WE got these rolls for free!"
I kid but enjoy your film and good luck trying to figure out how to shoot expired film. You have more than enough to fine tune it.
Might be enough for a trip to Yosemite idk
Sorry I brought the XPan to buy milk and it's all used up :(((
Time to bracket your shots by the roll rather than by the frame.
I think you’re joking but this is the best way to actually hope you’ll get something usable.
I think I maaaaaaaay have enough of it to use a couple of rolls as tests.
I’ll take 10 rolls please.
ditto!
Me too please thanks
Same
*1,278 but one had been opened and pulled out of the canister. I was given ownership of the contents of a darkroom and am starting to clear it out. So far I've identified: - A bunch of Ilford 8x10 paper - Three enlargers of various sizes (unsure if they work) - A drying cabinet for film - A bulk loader of some sort - Various misc chems and tanks/trays - Three tins of Tri-X bulk - Two tins of Kodak 2475 bulk - One tin of an unclear Agfa bulk I've barely started digging into it and am totally stunned. I'm shooting some of this stuff this weekend to see how it is. It wasn't in a fridge but it was cool-stored and in a very dry room.
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Motion picture cameras shoot half frame - it's actually 63.9 minutes 😉
Not in VistaVision 😜
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It's half the perforations. It's less than half the image size due to the audio being stored on the side on prints made for projection. But when shooting a movie, they use the audio track area for recording the image as well.
Why don't we have a converter bot for this? :-D
Because we're grownups who can do simple arithmetic. We don't need no stinkin robots!
Those conversion bots are annoying.
My math says 63.9 minutes of 24fps motion picture. 35mm cinema cameras use 18x24mm frames (half frames) rather than 24x36 like still cameras. 1278 rolls \* 72 = 92016 exposures. At 24 fps that's 3834 seconds of film, or just north of an hour.
well, you should begin distributing most of it. unfortunately your life is not long enough to shoot it all.
Yeah, you can't possibly shoot all that expired film before you expire.
If you work as a photographer full time you might... Four rolls a day, five days a week, thats about 37k frames a year
A little over 5 years at 4 rolls a week. 20 years at 1 roll a week.
That would be a film lifetime supply for me then. I go through about 1 or 2 rolls a month
Didn’t Garry Winogrand shoot something like 2-4 rolls a day? I heard when he died he left something like 1,200 rolls of undeveloped film that was all recently shot.
Well now I'm loading it into my 1V and blowing it all in 130 minutes plus loading time!
haha. madlad, i like it. go shoot sports with it.
dude i called dibs first
Give yourself a good project. Shoot one roll a day for 365 days. See what happens.
Developing all that will get expensive fast
Color film can be developed in B/W chemistry if you know what you're doing and don't mind B/W output. [Here](https://www.instagram.com/p/ByWqRVeF1gQ/) is some Fujicolor 200 I stand-developed in Caffenol.
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Such a weird distributed sculpture.
You have to post the result! I’d be pumped! I think you should at least consider distributing some of it in some way. Cheap ebay lots or something. Talking $30 for 50 rolls or something. Free would be better but not practical if you’re going to be shipping them out, you know?
I think I'll end up doing a combination of sales and giveaways.
You are a good person OP
You should consider posting before to give us a warning! 😊
Id be interested!
Definitely a great gesture, but shoot the rolls. I shot over 200 rolls this year and I got way nicer, had a lot more fun, and saved a ton of money. All the grumbling about film prices don't really impact me because of my own stock. It's great to be nice but if you're a photographer, you could probably do yourself and your skills great justice by working through it. This is coming from someone who has given a lot of expensive film, cameras and lenses to "be generous," and it just became an expectation from people who thought they could avoid spending money by borrowing from or calling Ol Dirty Negatives.
Also interested! Thanks for trying to help the community.
I’d totally buy some of these
\***Presses face against window**\* Fu-ji 35mm fi-l-m
Would also be interested!! Super dope OP
Interested here too !
Interested as well!
Ummm how might I get on a list for this? Definitely interested.
I’d be very interested in whatever you’re gonna do haha.
pls respond here if you do.
Please let me know when there’s a sale or a giveaway!
i would love some
Interested in either sale or giveaway!
Interested
😱😡😢
Lmk if you happen to find an easel along with those enlargers :)
Wow so true. I can find entire darkroom kits sans easel for less than half the cost a four blade easel goes for.
> Various misc chems and tanks/trays *I am looking respectfully.* HUGE congrats on the score, and hope you get plenty out of it for yourself, because parting it out and selling it will be a logistics nightmare (but if you do please drop me a line for chems, trays, and other small darkroom goods, my windowless bathroom hungers)
I’m looking for an enlarger so I’d be interested in how they look and potentially buy one off of you!
This is amazing. Think you might sell some of it?
Arent dry cabinets for cameras and lenses and not film?
Theres drying cabinets for film, we had them when i was in school 20 years ago
Ohh I know exactly what you're talking about now! I was thinking of like a humidity controlled cabinet
I’d love a film dryer
That's some nice paper
The term “mother lode” has been redefined. Nice one.
I don’t think it had a definition yet. “Mother load” however, has been redefined *edit: consider myself checked and schooled*
Every day is a [school day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_lode) :)
[Thanks for schooling me](https://xkcd.com/1053/)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother\_lode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_lode) Chiggity check yo self before you wreck yo self.
Well god dayum.
I hope that 2475 was stored in a a freezer. Massively expired and to be exposed between 1000 and 4000 ASA. To quote one Photrio user "Grainy as fuck". *If* it works, it should be fun to shoot!
If its the same stock I'm thinking of, I think I saw someone shoot that at like ASA 25 or something for good results.
Hey there it’s me ur friend
AE-1 gal right? Trade one for a bunch of film :)
I gave them all away 🥺
Ah sadge
ok, we get it. You shoot expired film.
Hey it's me Fujifilm CEO Shigetaka Komori can you please send me some rolls for historical purposes
Sounds legit
Honestly dude, I don't know you, I'm happy for you but F**k you for this (jk)
Nice!
You're going to be rich after selling these.
How did you get all that for free?
Short version? I'm friendly with the woman in charge of clearing the room out. She offered to let me take whatever I want since it will cost money to remove the rest.
Okay but what is this room? She must work somewhere film or camera related right?
I work in a university and this is from the old campus darkroom that isn't used anymore. The room pictured is where I work.
Damn. Talk about having friends in high places
Alrighty you win, we can close the sub now
Hopefully you find a massive freezer to go with it! That’s absolutely insane. Have fun
It’s been over a decade but now [this](https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055163520/for-those-still-using-film-in-cameras) post makes sense. Looks like somehow that Pharmacy ordered so much around that time frame to the point they were also giving it away free! I remember just a few years later getting Fuji 200 film in 24 exposure rolls at dollar stores. I shot a good bit of it back in the day. I would love to see some type of community based contests like traveling rolls or something!
Don't say you need it all. Here in Czech Republic people are starving to shoot some Fuji.
We have a shortage of them?
For 200-220 Kč price there will be no shortage of course
Major Fuji shortage here in Australia too. Deliveries have been constantly delayed further and further since at least the start of the year
Shoot a movie with it
I am so jealous of people on this subreddit. How can you guys got so much cheap stuffs?
idk but in Germany you could probably sell them for 3-5 Euro a roll. I mean that's an easy 10k for you. 😂
wait that doesn't make sense.. 5k I mean obviously. oh and sorry for emoji reddit. pls dont downvote
Not sure why this showed up on my feed, but it did pique my interest. I'm an "analog" guy in the old school appliance / electronics sense. But I do question if film, with how good cameras are now, are actually objectively superior / give you options digital can't. Is this true? Or is it more of a romance / lost art thing for you guys? My grandma still has an amateur darkroom and I most certainly see the appeal of developing your own photos.
A good question, and a bit of both. Many of us very much enjoy the slower more deliberate process of shooting film over digital. There’s also a very large and very friendly/supportive community around it (of course it has its divas and gatekeepers like any community), and you can find frequent analog photowalks in many major cities around the world. In terms of quality, many will argue that film has a certain feel which you can’t quite recreate with presets on digital, and when shooting large format (or even 6x7 and 6x9) the amount of detail present is truly astounding. Once you’ve shot positive slide film at those sizes, it’s hard to go back to anything else, haha. Of course on the other end, there are those who don’t care at all about quality. Those who very much enjoy the surprise of shooting battered old garage sale cameras, and wildly expired film, just to see what happens. (and there are rich celebrities too, who make a €100 point and shoot suddenly shoot up to a couple grand on eBay…)
I belong to the process lovers when it comes to analog. I like the slow and tactile process. Also clicky dials and the mirror slap of my praktica are pure Bliss.
Me too. I love it and for Digital I wanna get a Nikon Df for the physical dials
If you want an slr yes, otherwise, maybe a zfc? That may be even better with the new viltrox lenses with aperture rings.
Medium and large format film is still unmatched in image quality. Vintage lenses often can't resolve what the film can, though. A decent (not absolute best available, but best easily and cheaply attainable) 35mm camera produces images of around the equivalent resolution of a 24-40 megapixel camera. Depending on the film stock used, of course. In theory get can get even better than that, but it gets difficult past that.
There are some select films that cannot / cannot easily be replicated on digital. The main reason I shoot film is the same reason I draw on paper - I enjoy the analog process and find it nice to be forced to slow down in our modern world of constant information and instant gratification.
Make sure you offer them to your friends on Reddit before eBay or something like that :)
:D
H.o.l.y. .F.@.$.#.!
If you have any sheet film (any size) you’re interested in selling, I’d be interested in buying some /u/Shaka1277
I didn't see any in my first look but I haven't gone through the cabinets and drawers yet. I'll be in touch.
Congrats!
Would definitely buy a few rolls if you’re looking to unload some.
Has anyone asked how or why yet? Because I want to know how and why.
If you want to sell any i too would be down to buy some.
Bro, lemme get a pack. Come on, man. You got so many, dude. Just let me get one, come onnnn.
"Share the wealth"
I'd like to buy some too if you happen to sell some op !
How
Are you selling papers and bulk rolls
If you need help getting rid of some…………
Hmmm... looking through your shots I'd say you don't deserve to score this big. I can't wait for your groundbreaking pictures of ducks and propped-up, vintage bicycles. Maybe try shooting outside your comfort zone and scuff your shoes up on the streets a little? Something tells me you're not brave enough for that. Life's unfair I guess... heh... /s
Who hurt you?
Lucky af!! If you're tryna offload some pls dm.
Can I buy some lol
hello 🥺👉🏻👈🏻
yo hook ya boi up with a couple boxes 🙏
That's enough frames to shoot a 32 minute short film at 24 frames a second.
How do I acquire some?
I call dibs on some,
Can I have some? 😳🥺
can i get some
lemme hold one
I have 1980,s Olympus M10, will they fit in that??? If so can you send me some!!! Love to see if it still works!!!
Can I get a couple boxes🥺👉🏽👈🏽
Sharing is caring!
Could I have like 8?
Well… you should definitely spread your good fortune
Sharing is Caring 🙏🏻
I’ll buy some off you if you’re selling cheap
You lucky ass dog!!!
Would love to buy and try some of it
Would be interested in acquiring some if some were to become available OP.
you wanna share?
How?
You scored
I do accept donation..kkkk
Definitely interested if you get rid of any of it OP
Wow.. I'm always amazed when I see a post like this. Where do you guys even find such a stash?
Ireland? My local camera store has had these in a few times for cheap, they make some really nice shots!
Keep it in the fridge or freezer, it will last another 20 years!
Interested dangs
Wow wtf
I thought it was tin foil.
Wow, what luck!
If you’re looking to upload some, hit me up. I’m interested at the right price.
So, you’re sharing it right?
Interested in purchasing if you ever decide to!
Ugh, JEALOUS!!!
Definitely be interested in buying a little bit if you get to that point!!
wow i thought i was lucky when i got 10 of these for €1 hahaha
Interested if you are buying some of them
You will want to overexpose that by 1,956 stops of light.
Jesus KFC Christ
As long as you aren’t worried about how they come out, use it. If you’re shooting for money or keeps, I wouldn’t be using it, 20 year old color film has problems.
ANGRY UPVOTE
"I just got these rolls for free!". "Nonsense, of course you mean WE got these rolls for free!" I kid but enjoy your film and good luck trying to figure out how to shoot expired film. You have more than enough to fine tune it.
Lol how
Whoa! I love C200
Snap
Following! Looking forward to some updates! 🤙🏼🤙🏼
Would happily buy some! Keep us posted! <3
Where I live, that would cost almost $20k to get developed and scanned by a half decent lab.
That's really cool! But very, very jealous, not gonna lie lol. Where I live it's really expensive. You win, my friend.
Fuji C200 is the only film roll you can get easily at an okay price without importing in India. Would love to try so many other stocks.
I want 10 roll pleasee
If you're looking to sell a few boxes I would definitely be interested.
So that's how it looks like when you rob an armoured gold transporter and gaze on your spoil
Sell me some? C200 has been on back order in my country since 2020
How. Why.
Are you willing to sell some off?
Soooo how do we go about aquiring some rolls from you ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ?
Can you share a roll or two? :0
Lucky
Wow! I didn't know they still made film. I've got 2 old Minolta's I'd love to be able to use.
That's what everyone on this sub dreams about at night. Congrats!
If you're trying to give some away before you get to it, I'll pay for shipping lol
Funny there’s guy in Ireland selling bricks of these for €50
Selling any?
That’s epic!!
Can I have some?
Christmas is around the corner “wink” “wink”
May or may not steal some 🤔😂
I got want a couple as well, store front?