So how many film shots do you have?

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Well maybe I don't have many compared to others? I have scanned most of my 35mm and about 60% of MF about 10% of slides and a few scanned photos ...and with all the ones done by the labs, I have 7157 shots/JPGs on my computer......I can't remember them all and when an old film challenge comes up, I start viewing at the beginning and pick the first one that would be suitable. :rolleyes:
 
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I have a spreadsheet which records each roll of B&W film that has been scanned; there are 380 sheets of negatives and each contains one roll of film whether it be 35mm or 120, or up to 4 sheets of 4x5. If I'm looking for a particular negative to make a print I can filter the list by camera used, film, and subject, to help narrow down the list, then use a reference number recorded in the spreadsheet to find the matching negative file.

Colour negatives are also stored in negative files (about 300 pages) but they aren't stored in a spreadsheet since I rarely need to retrieve them.

I have all my film images scanned except for some made over 40 years ago, which have gone missing.

To find an image among the scans, I would search in the Adobe Lightroom catalog for keywords. At the time of scanning I create filenames which incorporate the camera name, film, developer, and location/subject, so even if I haven't specifically added keywords, the search will work with the filenames.

Scans which were done by a lab, or digital files, are more of a problem because the filenames are often just a number, which isn't even unique within the Lightroom catalog. However Lightroom can search for image content even without a keyword. For example if I search for "tree" then Lightroom will find 200 images out of a total of 24,000 images, which it thinks contains trees. Unfortunately some of the hits don't contain trees and I suspect I have many more than 200 images with trees.
 
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Too late for most of mine.
Slides taken between '62 and '72 have been attacked by fungus in the last 20 years since we returned to the UK, and I haven't looked at my negatives (they are in A4 storage sheets, 4 piles about 30cm high) in that 20 years, and now I really wonder if I would have any interest in them at all, even if they are in useable condition.

However, I enjoyed taking them, and the times at which they were taken.

I still have quite a number of photos from 100+ years ago until recent (no, I didn't take them all!) which I guess are the results of filtering by family before me, and in some cases the negatives as well, which are enough for me.
 
Wow in comparison I haven't taken many after getting my first decent camera (pentax S3) in 1960, unfortunately before then have lost the negs...also I'm quite ruthless in throwing away negs/shots that I don't like or failures and that must add up to many. Also gave up photography as a hobby for many years because I used to do my own colour dev and printing and was so pi***d off that they stopped producing PhotocolorII https://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/PhotoTechnology/Photocolor_II.html
Interesting what Kevin said about Lightroom as I didn't know it can be used for search as I have the problem of finding shots and have done some sorting e.g. all shots with my grandchildren included.
 
Hundreds of thousands probably, many years press and wedding, as well as forty odd years hobby. I'd easily get through five or ten rolls a day with press work, it wasn't uncommon to have three footy matches on a saturday afternoon (often in three different towns) to cover, you learn fast driving too ;) Sadly nearly all are still only on film. I do have a film scanner but it's very slow and I simply dont have time to scan them in. If I'm honest I've probably scanned only a few dozen over the years.
 
I'm a relative noob coming back to film only in 2019 but I have 28 films all scanned, 20 are 12 exp, 7 are 15 exp and one is 36 exp so 291 that are scanned for keeping. As for before digital I couldn't count the number of films let alone frames I was shooting constantly from 1978 through to 2000 on both 35mm and 120, I'd often use 2-3 films a week but in the height when it was work more like 5 rolls a day so I'd guess around 40,000 frames. I have all the negs but only 2 have ever been scanned.
 
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I'm a relative noob coming back to film only in 2019 but I have 28 films all scanned, 20 are 12 exp, 7 are 15 exp and one is 36 exp so 291 that are scanned for keeping. As for before digital I couldn't count the number of films let alone frames I was shooting constantly from 1978 through to 2000 on both 35mm and 120, I'd often use 2-3 films a week but in the height when it was work more like 5 rolls a day so I'd guess around 40,000 frames. I have all the negs but only 2 have ever been scanned.
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The digi guys would laugh at me as for about over 6 years have 3 compact digi cameras and a I year old mobile phone...and have taken less than 100 shots o_O
 
Kevin Allan said:
I have a spreadsheet which records each roll of B&W film that has been scanned; there are 380 sheets of negatives and each contains one roll of film whether it be 35mm or 120, or up to 4 sheets of 4x5. If I'm looking for a particular negative to make a print I can filter the list by camera used, film, and subject, to help narrow down the list, then use a reference number recorded in the spreadsheet to find the matching negative file.

Colour negatives are also stored in negative files (about 300 pages) but they aren't stored in a spreadsheet since I rarely need to retrieve them.

I have all my film images scanned except for some made over 40 years ago, which have gone missing.

To find an image among the scans, I would search in the Adobe Lightroom catalog for keywords. At the time of scanning I create filenames which incorporate the camera name, film, developer, and location/subject, so even if I haven't specifically added keywords, the search will work with the filenames.

Scans which were done by a lab, or digital files, are more of a problem because the filenames are often just a number, which isn't even unique within the Lightroom catalog. However Lightroom can search for image content even without a keyword. For example if I search for "tree" then Lightroom will find 200 images out of a total of 24,000 images, which it thinks contains trees. Unfortunately some of the hits don't contain trees and I suspect I have many more than 200 images with trees.
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FishyFish said:
Approaching 12,000 scans in my scanned negatives folder. That's from the last six years or so of shooting film.

A little over 5,000 of them on Flickr:

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Shot on film

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I am genuinely in awe of this level of detail and committment, as my output is pretty chaotic. I only returned to film a few years back when trying out old cameras with Poundland Agfa, and my choice of recording info was to use the first frame for a mirror shot of the camera. While I sleeved and filed my home-developed b&w, it's only recently that I've started writing details of camera and developer on the margin of the Kenro pages. I guess it's fair to say that all my old negs would probably never be revisited if it wasn't for the Old Film Challenge here, and the boxes of slides in the cupboard will surely be first in the bin when I declutter/pass on. Oh, and I'm no better with my digital shots either.

:eek: :notworthy::notworthy:
 
Bought an Epson 850 last year to scan films taken since and to start scanning those that might do well in competitions etc..... taken only about 8-10 films in the last year otherwise the scanner has been idle...

I'd say I have about 10,000 film shots, tiny fraction of which have been scanned. would be good to get to work on those that were taken in the early 90s before the films begin to deteriorate.
 
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Bought an Epson 850 last year to scan films taken since and to start scanning those that might do well in competitions etc..... taken only about 8-10 films in the last year otherwise the scanner has been idle...

I'd say I have about 10,000 film shots, tiny fraction of which have been scanned. would be good to get to work on those that were taken in the early 90s before the films begin to deteriorate.
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My B/W negs from the 60s (in sleeves) are OK and the 60s colour neg films (in sleeves) have faded a bit but can be revived in Photoshop.....all stored at room temp.
 
I believe I have scanned everyone of my negatives and slides as well as all my dad's.

I have a master spreadsheet summarising the films. Confusingly it is divided into three groups; New System, Old System, No System.

I can't explain in full detail what this means. To cut it short, New System contains more current pictures and scans, Old System very old negatives (when I used to record the exposure details for each film, lost the notebook ages ago) and No System, the rest. Basically it is the next best thing to absolute chaos.

To make it more confusing, the New System records are mixed up with my digital shots. The other two sets are film exclusively.

To say, definitively, how many films I have is almost impossible. Seeing that, in total, the number of archived images I have is about 60,000, I can't honestly claim that more than about 40,000 are my originals. Of those maybe only 25,000 from film. That's taking into account quite a few found images, film, slide and print.

I give periodic copies of the galleries to my sons every now and then as I'm unsure what will happen to the physical files.

I've also created a few albums of prints, both film and digital.
 
PeterSpencer said:
I believe I have scanned everyone of my negatives and slides as well as all my dad's.

I have a master spreadsheet summarising the films. Confusingly it is divided into three groups; New System, Old System, No System.

I can't explain in full detail what this means. To cut it short, New System contains more current pictures and scans, Old System very old negatives (when I used to record the exposure details for each film, lost the notebook ages ago) and No System, the rest. Basically it is the next best thing to absolute chaos.

To make it more confusing, the New System records are mixed up with my digital shots. The other two sets are film exclusively.

To say, definitively, how many films I have is almost impossible. Seeing that, in total, the number of archived images I have is about 60,000, I can't honestly claim that more than about 40,000 are my originals. Of those maybe only 25,000 from film. That's taking into account quite a few found images, film, slide and print.

I give periodic copies of the galleries to my sons every now and then as I'm unsure what will happen to the physical files.

I've also created a few albums of prints, both film and digital.
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Tesco, boots and Asda (as others) used to provide all negs, CDs etc in a folder and it was numbered and are all on my shelf in numerical order, well the JPGs from each folder are on my computer with the folder number...so I can go back to the folder and rescan a neg, but before using them and doing my own dev my system is chaotic........with filmdev all I can do is write the date the shots were taken etc on the envelope and are piling up one on top of the other.
 
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Scanned? Maybe 3-5 hundred. Filed and not worth the effort to scan? Several thousand, almost all 35mm with just a couple of boxes of MF.
 
No idea :oops: :$

No , I aint counting them !!!:LOL:
 
I don't have many, I actually missed the film era and only got started with photography in the mid noughties and even then, not seriously so.

A few years ago (3 or so), I bought a cheap Canon SLR, a Canon EOS 500. It's a beautifully simple thing, just does what it needs to and is familiar too as it's basically the same layout as later DSLRs.

I paid £5 for it and can use any of my EF lenses on it.

I bought 3 rolls of film, Fuji Superior Xtra, 400. I've burned through one roll, had it developed and now I'm halfway through the second. It comes with me on landscape outings and I will use it then. I forget how many times I've looked at the back of the camera to check the image after I've done an exposure. I have to make a conscious effort not to look. :LOL:

As for numbers, I have some old prints from the 90's taken with a point and shoot film camera, mainly at F1 and other race meetings. I also had a Kodak 110 as a kid and the prints are here somewhere.

So my recent foray into film has produced 36 prints so far and 12 or so taken, still in the camera. The film will be out of date now.
 
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I've got two two drawer filing cabinets with slides in hangers (four drawers in total). Full to overflowing with slides in boxes balanced on top of the hangers. More hangers would need another drawer.

Additionally, five or six ring binders of negatives from the sixties and a few from the 1970s. I used about three 36 exp films a day in my first term at university. That was why I bought a bulk loader... The negatives soon mount up.

Then six ring binders of more recent stuff.

The vast majority unscanned, only medium and large format has been scanned, but all negatives have contact prints of the whole film courtesy of Paterson proof printers, and for LF courtesy of computer generated from scans.
 
I have many, many thousands of negatives! Over 40 rolls of 135 so far this year (35 last year). I have retroscanned most of my old film archive from 1967 to 2005, except for the boring years with lots of pics of children on them (don't let my wife see this!). The negatives since 2012 are filed in 4 negative binders; slide boxes fill several shoe boxes, and there are random bags and boxes around the place that still have original negative envelopes in them. Plus, I strongly suspect some TIDYING has occurred, whether by me or my wife, that might explain why there don't seem to be nearly as many old neg envelopes as retroscanned folders!

I do occasionally try to impose further order on this lot, and to make progress retroscanning more of the missing family photos, but sadly it rarely lasts long. The higher priority project to to retroscan the (single cut) 6x9 black and white negatives from my father's archive dating up to about the 1950s, before my brother (approaching his 90s) becomes unavailable for helping out with identification! But I'm not making progress on that, either... :-(
 
Many thousands from the 70's to 2005 but I have previously scanned those I though worthy of using some years ago when I owned a film scanner. They are all filed and many in ring binders with contact prints.

Dave
 
ChrisR said:
Over 40 rolls of 135 so far this year (35 last year)
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Huh! for me I've run out of subjects/ideas to shoot.....but do have a large suitcase full of prints going way back and one day I'll have to scan them if they are different to my scanned negs.
 
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