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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!oasys!goldberg
- From: goldberg@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Goldberg)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: How to keep expired date films?!
- Message-ID: <27544@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:12:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.195051.2108@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> <101979@bu.edu>
- Reply-To: goldberg@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Goldberg)
- Followup-To: rec.photo
- Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Annapolis, MD
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- In rec.photo, dtang@bass.bu.edu (yunfei zhang) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov14.195051.2108@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> dollbes@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
- wr >ites: >>What is the best way to keep color print film that is almost
- past the "develop >>before" date. Some say freezer, some refrigerator????
- >>Thanks for any ideas. >> >>Shaul in Cincinnati > >Common sense tells
- me that keeping in freezer is better. The whole >purpose of keeping
- the film cold is to slow down the chemical >kinetics which is temperature
- dependent. So far, I am keeping my >films in the freezer packaged in
- a plastic bag (together with >all my frozen meat :-))
-
- I was also concerned about this issue. I keep a lot of Vericolor pro
- film around. Vericolor has a shorter "life" than other films and is
- supposed to be refrigerated. I have heard pros and cons about the freezer,
- so I called the Professional Markets division of Eastman Kodak.
-
- They confirmed that freezing was a good way to preserve the film (well,
- at least the type I use). In particular some of mine had gone a month
- or two out of date. They said that since the film had been kept in
- the freezer, I had effectively extended its life.
-
- So, freeze away!
-
-
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