i've got a dilemma that only experienced travellers can relate to: lets say that i'm going to live for two months out of a backpack, and being a camera happy amateur photographer, 18 rolls of film later, what should i do? should i send some rolls home to Canada as I go traipsing around europe? should i develop there, send one copy, and once assured they made the voyage across the atlantic, send the doubles? or should i just hang on to my film, keeping it in my thrown around backpack that has a relatively high chance of being stolen?
what have you done in the past?
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take them out of the plastic containers, it cuts the space wright down put them in a zip lock and pack them around. or fed x
You don't mention where you are going to travel. If you are
traveling in Europe, I think it would be best to send your
film home and hve it developed there.
But if you manage to find a cheap place you could probably
have your film developed only. You'll have the negatives
only, little space and weight. You could have the phots
printed in Canada.
Maybe that could help.
C-B
There's a much greater chance of your backpack being stolen
than your film getting lost in the post (if you post from a
Western European country).
I did a little of everything.
I started out sending home rolls not developed.
Then I found I was so curious I got some developed before
hand and then sent home about 4 developed packs at a time.
By the end of the trip, I got sick of going to the post
office so much so I kept onto the last 5 or 6 rolls and did
what HHH did - plastic baggy full of rolls. Although I was
deeply curious still and nervous all the time that
something would happen to them.
the same thing.
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If I were to send film home, wouldn't it get ruined? Don't
they x-ray all packages that get sent by air?
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I'm considering carrying the film for my entire trip.
Should I be worried about the film getting ruined while I'm
travelling. My trip will be from mid-June to Sept 1. I
fear that the film might fade because of the time spent in
my bag and all the heat and stuff. Any comments on this?
.
FYI, I shipped a box of stuff home once and it never got
there (go UPS!!), and it took me nearly 8 months to get the
cheque for the declared value. I've never lost anything or
had anything stolen while travelling. So I think I'd
prefer to trust myself with something as important as my
pictures.
my film with me all through my trip (6 months). Both sending
it home and keeping it with you has an element of risk. In
the end, I decided that the money it costs to send it home
can pay for another night's accommodation in Morocco, so I
kept it. But you have to decide what you're comfortable
with.
as western european countries definitely check airfreigt
with heavy x-rays! In the same time we have got excellent
and cheap ways to develop films (we are first world,
guess!!). So either keep your films with you (I usually do
that) in your handluggage or have them developed and send
the prints to your place.
what i did when i was in europe for 12 months was to get my
film developed when ever i saw a price that was not too
extraordinary, and then send the negatives and the prints
home on seperate occasions. This is not the cheapest way to
go about it, but at least you know that if one envelope goes
missing, you'll always have the other, and you don't have to
worry about getting your film x-rayed. Some times i posted
the negatives, and once i knew they were home, threw out the
prints. Again expensive, but in some countries it costs more
to post the prints, than to get them redone once you get
home!!