Digital BW, The Print

If it is rolls, I would worry about long term curl issue. We get in  
film to process sometimes from the 60's and it has an awful curl that  
makes handling it tough.
Mark

On Apr 21, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Paul Roark wrote:

> > How long can one store say 25 or 50 iso b&w film in a freezer, 5,  
> 10,
> > 20 years, ....indefinately?  ...
>
> I've never had relatively slow film go bad in my freezer.  So, it's  
> now full
> of Tech Pan (and the refrigerator has enough Technidol developer  
> for all the
> film).  Fast film can apparently be exposed by background  
> radiation  --
> radon, cosmic rays, etc.  However, I've never heard of that for  
> medium or
> slow film.  So, between my personal experience and all I've heard, I'm
> assuming my slow B&W film will be good for many years.  I have no  
> idea,
> however, how long that is.  I'm assuming a few decades of storage  
> is no
> problem.



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