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Another reference
 Originally Posted by Sal Santamaura
...Anyone wanting more information about cold storage should read Wilhelm's opus...
I forgot to include this one, also on Wilhelm's site, that provides additional relevant information:
http://www.wilhelm-research.com/subz...emp_and_RH.pdf
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Originally Posted by Sal Santamaura
Have you had any ruined that way? If so, what film was it, i.e. how was it packaged while in a freezer?
Well, I cannot definitively say that storing the film in the freezed CAUSED the damage but it is difficult for me to imagine another possible factor let alone link it to the damge observed. Here is what I have observed.
Seven boxes of FujiChrome 5x7 film (5 provia and two Velvia) bought over a span of three years. Five different batches. Stored in the original, unopened manufacturer's packaging. Storage in an ordinary, relatively small (about a half cubic meter interior volume) houshold chest freezer with nothing else in it except film stock. Temperature control set to the nominal value (4 on a scale of 1 to 6). Storage time ranging from three to five years. Freezer was opened only briefly to add or remove materials and probably less than one per month on average. Allowing eight hours to come up to ambient room temperature after removal of a box from storage.
In three boxes I observed sheets of film stuck together. All boxes have a distinct odor.
It has been at least eight years since I stopped storing film in the freezer. In that time, my rate of film usage has increased, I buy film more frequently now, and at most, two boxes at a time. All is stored in an un-airconditioned home and occasionally put a box in the bottom drawer of the fridge. I have not experienced any further issues since abandoning the freezer. However, I am buying on an ongoing and strictly as needed basis. I think this approach is better.
Last edited by BradS; 01-12-2012 at 02:14 PM.
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Brad;
I have seen the sticking problem before but not with unopened boxes of Kodak sheet film. This is a humidity problem. If the box is unopened and sheets stick, then the final conditioning stage of coating was set at too high humidity. That is my opinion.
PE
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Originally Posted by Photo Engineer
Brad;
I have seen the sticking problem before but not with unopened boxes of Kodak sheet film. This is a humidity problem. If the box is unopened and sheets stick, then the final conditioning stage of coating was set at too high humidity. That is my opinion.
PE
PE: In the thirty years I've been shooting film, I have never experienced any defect in any Kodak film stock - ever - regardless of how it was stored. Nor, for that matter, in any of the few Kodak chemicals that I use (D-76, HC-110, Dektol, Indicator Stop Bath, Hypo Clearing Agent, PhotoFlo 200).
I do hope that after the corporate dust settles, Production of Kodak film stock will continue in Rochester.
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Originally Posted by Photo Engineer
...That reference has some good conclusions but uses a false premise. Therefore I would use this paper with great reservation...
OK, I'll not use it as a basis for action. Instead, I'll rely on my personal experience. 
Originally Posted by BradS
...Here is what I have observed.
Seven boxes of FujiChrome 5x7 film (5 provia and two Velvia) bought over a span of three years. Five different batches. Stored in the original, unopened manufacturer's packaging. Storage in an ordinary, relatively small (about a half cubic meter interior volume) houshold chest freezer with nothing else in it except photo materials. Temperature control set to the nominal value (4 on a scale of 1 to 6). Storage time ranging form three to five years. Freezer was not opened only briefly to add or remove materials and probably less than one per month on average. Allowing eight hours to come up to ambient room temperature after removal of a box from storage.
In three boxes I observed sheets of film stuck together. All boxes have a distinct odor...
I don't have personal experience with long-term freezing of Fuji sheet film, although friends who do haven't reported such problems. I have kept Kodak sheet film in the freezer compartment for over a decade without any sticking or "spot" issues. Perhaps I shouldn't have appended the bit about Fuji and Ilford, since they might not control their products' humidity at time of packaging as tightly as Kodak does.  All boxes do pick up the "freezer smell," even through LDPE ziploc bags if they were placed in those. However, I've never detected that odor inside Kodak's laminated vapor-seal envelopes, despite my extremely low olfactory threshold.
Originally Posted by Photo Engineer
...I have seen the sticking problem before but not with unopened boxes of Kodak sheet film. This is a humidity problem. If the box is unopened and sheets stick, then the final conditioning stage of coating was set at too high humidity. That is my opinion.
Probably the case.
Originally Posted by BradS
...I am buying on an ongoing and strictly as needed basis. I think this approach is better.
A wonderful approach and one I take with Ilford products. However, the threads I linked to were about Kodak's discontinuation of 8x10 320TXP. I also suspect we'll see the end of 5x7 320TXP as soon as Kodak runs out of 5x7 boxes. Therefore, since I've found 320TXP's curve shape is the best match to my cache of Azo, I made a decision to store as much 5x7 and 8x10 as practical. For reasons those posts covered, I'm not worried about considering my stock in the freezer a lifetime supply.
Given your use of 4x5 320TXP and Kodak's current situation, you might be forced to take a different approach soon. Or move to Ilford.
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A very thick layer of lawyers, stored underground on top of the lead-lined freezer is your best bet. Unless you are sensitive to odors . . .
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Put them in the freezer!
PE
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Matt
“Photography is a complex and fluid medium, and its many factors are not applied in simple sequence. Rather, the process may be likened to the art of the juggler in keeping many balls in the air at one time!”
Ansel Adams, from the introduction to The Negative - The New Ansel Adams Photography Series / Book 2
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Hmmm, twinkies and salt mines, I have stored film for years (15 or so) in the fridge and I haven't had any problems.
Although, all the talk in this thread has made me think about it.
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Photographers, go figure!). Anyhow, the purpose of hardening a photo product is to raise the TG so that you can process at a higher temperature with acceptable results or at a lower temperature with better results than unhardened film or paper.
