 Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Left my Slide and B&W film in Car! Guys - My dumb butt left my camera bag in my car yesterday while at work and it was full of Velvia and Ilford film. The outside temp was 80, so I'm sure in the car it had to be at least one hundred. Is my film ruined? Is it worth taking on a shoot and risking the exposures not developing?
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John P. Sandstedt |
Based on my experience, you can probably use it for most purposes and get acceptable results. That being said, I wouldn't use it on an important shoot - just to play it safe.
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Thanks for the response, John. I'm so mad at myself, as I just bought the film this weekend. About a hundred bucks gone for "acceptable" results.... :(
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Mark Feldstein |
It oughtta be alright Andy. Get a color card, blast some exposures with it, process it normally and take a look to see if you've got any color shifting. In my experience, in terms of heat exposure, both Ilford and Fuji pro emulsions are fairly forgiving. So unless the heat exposure was sustained and prolonged over days, I wouldn't be too concerned. I'm kind of also assuming you got it back into the fridge after discovering your oversight. If it's really bad, I hope you let us know. And if it is, you can always use it to make some lovely Melted Velvia sandwiches. Whaddya think?? (ooohhhhh, baaaaad joke Mark)
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Thanks for the advice, and yes, that was a bad joke (even though I chuckled). And no, I didn't put it back in the fridge, just brought it back into the house. Another question - what's the life span of film? I've just bought a Nikon D70s that's coming today so I'll know I'll be wrapped up with that for a while (new toy syndrome)....
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Justin G. |
virtually indefinite if frozen. double or triple ziploc bag it and throw it in the freezer [gently].
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Mark Feldstein |
Yep, like Justin said. And he's right I I think), I knew a guy once, who SWORE that banging a roll of film on a hard surface caused damage to the grain structure. Don't know what that could do to pixels though. Freeze the stuff you bought and left in the car. My preference for warm-up times when you're getting ready to shoot the stuff is 24 hours outside the freezer in its original packaging to allow the condensation to form outside rather than on the film. Meanwhile, I'd still keep one roll of the Velvia out to test it as I mentioned. Betcha you're ok. Oh, and for the best film site on the net (IMHO), take a look at APUG.org. (Just in case you get bored with that D-70 ;>) Mark Mark
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Bob Cammarata |
I've subjected Fuji Provia to similar extremes in temperature and it has fared well. Specifically,...a hand full of rolls left in my backpack, in and out of the car during a two-day summer trip. When I processed the rolls they looked the same as the ones I'd kept cool. It might be interesting to learn exactly what temperature extremes (and duration of same) will affect a change in performance of modern-day pro films.
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