Bag or box to store film for your field trips

[Ig Nacio]

Hi,

What do you use?

When I take pictures. The sheets are usually developed the same day.

This frees up space for new sheets to be placed inside the holders. I
currently have six 4x5" film holders. So far, this is fine for me. However,
I have thought on doing some field trips in the near future.

If you do field trips where do you store the film that has been shot?

I have thought on getting black plastic bags like the ones where new
4x5" film comes in. Would that be a good idea? Is there any type
you may recommend?

Besides the plastic bags, is there a product you may recommend to
store the exposed sheet film?

I will also get other film holders but I would also like to keep my kit
as compact as possible.

Thank you, kind regards!

Ig : )!!!

[Robert Opheim]

I have kept old film boxes - and the plastic and cardboard inserts to use for each development type of exposed black and white film. I prefer to leave the film in holders if possible.

[darr]

While on a road trip, I use the Domke Film Guard Bag to store my exposed film (in a film box inside).
I use their medium size one the most, but B&H only sells the larger ones now.

[Doremus Scudder]

I have a cooler that stores 50 holders and lives in my car. When the holders are all used (or close), I transfer exposed film to empty film boxes (I like the old Kodak 25- and 50-sheet three-part boxes). I have several, marked N, N+ and N-. They are taped shut with painter's tape with and end folded back on itself so I can open them easily later. These go in quart-size ZipLoc bags.

Finding a place to reload holders when on the road can be challenging. Motel clerks always look at me strangely when I ask for a room with a bathroom with no windows

Sometimes I'm on the road for a couple of months. Having lots of holders is really nice. I can make 100 exposures before needing to reload.

OP, I'd suggest you buy some more holders

Doremus

[PatrickMarq]

Having lots of holders is really nice. I can make 100 exposures before needing to reload.

I was happy with 25 film holders. Quit impressive

[John Kasaian]

Coolers are decent in very hot weather. No ice of course.
I hide them out of sight in the trunk of the car ever since Drew Wiley taught the bears around here to read, so now they associate Coleman and Igloo with snacks.

[Ig Nacio]

Hi,

Thank you : )!!!

I have enyojed reading your posts!

I'll get some more sheet film holders,
the Domke bag, and use the older
boxes and bags that I have.

Thank you again, very kind regards,

Ig : )!!!

[Drew Wiley]

This last trip I "borrowed" from my wife an aluminized-interior padded nylon fabric grocery bag, which was smaller with 8x10 holders in it than my usual dedicated small picnic box. But the weather was mostly cool anyway. I got back to the coast before the late week temp rise. John - in my youth, when my mother had to drive an hour to Bad Boy Grocery in Clovis, and neither cars nor homes were air conditioned, she'd manage to get back home, even on 110F summer afternoons, quarts of ice cream completely firm and unmelted. She'd use multiple layers paper backs stuffed with this or that as insulation in between, much like the old ice wagons used straw to keep Donner Lake ice cold during transport far and wide.

When I had to switch out film in the field, besides my Harrison film tents, my three-piece film boxes were all spray lacquered in advance to keep them tough, waterproof, and lint free. I used butyl acetate print lacquer, and let it outgas a full six months before use. Clear Krylon spray acrylic is safer to work with, and will outgas a lot faster, but being acrylic, is prone to a bit of static charge attracting dust. I won't go into detail here how I turned the whole system almost into a mini-cleanroom, even out in the woods. But that was the era when Quickload and Readyload sleeves arrived; so I never used film tents much anyway.

And incidentally, I have never trained bears to do anything bad, unless it's raiding the goodies of Fresno people. They can always spot those. But now some bears are themselves accepting developer bribes instead. Expect a subdivision to begin in the meadows of Yosemite once the river subsides.