What Size Is Your Freezer?

[Steve Goldstein]

20 cu. ft. upright. I get half, my wife gets the other half. And my half is already pretty much full.

[sanking]

Are you also getting 30 years of developer? (I figure if film goes, so will prepared developers, Metol powder, etc.)

Lenny

Why worry about that? There are many excellent formulas that one can easily mix. Most of the chemicals are used for other purposes so I doubt they will disappear.

On the other hand, I am going to use up my remaining supply of film, primarily 120 and 5X7 B&W, in a timely manner. Saving it for thirty years is not a good option at age 68 and counting.

BTW, I just made a seriously nice 12X16" Piezography K7 print on Photo Rag 308 from an IR converted Lumix G3 16mp micro four-thirds camera. Image capture was made during my recent trip to China somewhere near Inner Mongolia. No, quality is not 5X7 or 8X10, but then I could never have been in that place to capture the image with a large film camera.

Sandy

[mdm]

Those K7 inks make nice prints. I expect the same of Eboni 6 for less too.

Its dumb to stockpile b&w film in standard sizes, it just brings forward the demise of Kodak etc. Useing lots of it and ordering regularly is the best way to preserve a supply.

[Heroique]

Me, I started w/ a tiny freezer.

But w/ every trip to the field, and every announcement of one less film, my tiny freezer grows bigger & bigger & bigger...

My freezer is gigantic at this point, and keeps growing.

[Michael_4514]

You know, that's pretty much been my feeling on the subject, but it's color film I'm worried about.

[jvo]

I have a 5 cu ft GE chest that's about 1/3 full of 4x5 and 8x10 film. My wife kicked me out of the kitchen freezer about 3 years ago. I like the idea of the chest freezer being opened waaaay less than the one in the kitchen. It lives in my home office and it seems to be happy there.

real photographers don't need their wife's permission to use the kitchen freezer, right guys!

(p.s. i'm sleeping on the couch tonight)

[jp498]

We use the freezer for the same reason wives use a freezer; to buy stuff when the price is right, not when you need it.

Holiday 7 cu ft Chest Freezer, about $200 at lowes. I've got two of them. Very efficient electrically. One just for food, this one for film and treats. I made a wooden daggerboard to separate the film from the food. If not for money constraints, I'd have a whole freezer full of film. When we get low on food, we'll move everything to one freezer and defrost if needed. Or if one freezer dies, (and we catch it), we can transfer food and not have as much spoilage.

[Rick A]

I have a 14cuft chest freezer loaded with film and enlarging paper, and an under counter fridge full of film. The food lives in my side by side in the kitchen.

[EOTS]

Got a designated film freezer last month, 2 meters (= 6.56 feet) vertical, 60 cm (= 2 feet) deep, 60 cm horizontal ...

[marfa boomboom tx]

Just curious to know what size freezers people are using.

GE 5.0 cu. ft. // about $30 year to run

It holds about 3 years of film and paper. My wife is also a shooter, in fact she runs all our film; mixes the chemicals, AND cleans the darkroom towels...

We are getting it a bigger brother.

We also have a small (one tub) working box of rolls in the regular Samsung fridge-feeezer.. nothing in that freezer but frozen veg.


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