Purchasing and freezing film. How long will it last?

[Aggie]

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[fhovie]

My freezer is a capicitor???? what about all that dielectric loading caused by frozen meat and veggies? I would think it would be so low q and so lossy that even if it were near a substation transformer, it would have trouble conducting electricity. The big electrical threat is during film handling. A fast move with the dark slide or rewinding roll film too fast would be the biggest problem.

[Donald Miller]

000.

[Jorge Oliveira]

I know a lot about capacitors, EMF, all those little things that goes inside an electronic whatever.
That's how I earn the money I spend in film and paper...
But never heard about low frequency electromagnetic fields affecting film.
That would be real news for me.


Jorge O

[Aggie]

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[c6h6o3]

My freezer is a capicitor????

If it's constructed of two metal plates separated by a dielectric, then yes, it is.

[David A. Goldfarb]

Wait a minute. Can I plug my strobe heads into it?

[c6h6o3]

Wait a minute. Can I plug my strobe heads into it?

Sure. Recycle time will be about six years. Be sure to pay your model by the job, not by the hour.

[Ed Sukach]

I have had film in the freezer for up to 8 to 10 years. The 10 year old did some strange things so I discarded it and am more careful with the film in the fridge.

I have *no* proof, but I would venture a guess that the film did not change much ... but the chemistries in the processing DID. Even with Rodinal ...
I've read that at least one European company advertises a formula *very* close to "the OLD Rodinal".

[Michael A. Smith]

A freezer constructed with metal as the inside wall and then insulation with metal outside concentrates cosmic energy and the concentration of energy can fog light-sensitive material. A freezer constructed out of cement block with insulation on the inside will not conduct that energy nor will it fog film. Because of this phenomena, I recently built a cement block freezer.

Main point: you do not want metal on the inside.