I've always kept my film in the fridge but have read that some people freeze theirs. As I'm about to buy quite a few rolls soon I wondered if this is safe. Does it make the emulsion brittle?
Perhaps when it comes to colour film, this may be a better option but as I don't use colour, I've no experience of how well it keeps.
Well there's a 100' roll of Fuji colour film dated 1991 on the bay..if you want to find out
the best storage is in salt mines ... oh ! emmm ! who has them ?
I've currently got 20 boxes of Kodak Colour Infrared (EIR) dated 1991 in my freezer, as per the storage instructions... Dunno whether it'll be alright after living in your loft for that long (especially through hot summers) but whack on a strong yellow/orange/red filter and shoot it at 200, can't hurt but try!I came across a film a little older than that recently when I was having a clear out in the loft, a roll of Kodak High Speed Infrared 2481 dated May 1987. It was in a box full of stuff from my retailing years over 20 years ago, including some old brochures. God only knows how I ended up with this film as I have never used infrared film in my life and don't recall ever stocking it in our shop either.
Dunno whether it'll be alright after living in your loft for that long (especially through hot summers) but whack on a strong yellow/orange/red filter and shoot it at 200, can't hurt but try!
I think radiation will be more of an issue, not even a fridge of freezer can prevent that .
I think radiation will be more of an issue, not even a fridge of freezer can prevent that .
fridges and freezers are big metal boxes so should kill alpha beta and a fair bit of gamma