[pure-silver] Re: OT: Condensation on frozen film
- From: Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 17:15:38 -0700
At 03:40 PM 5/18/2005, Michael Healy wrote:
>Sorry to go OT. I'm having a dispute with my (ex-?) lab, and hope someone
>can give me
>some thoughts/evidence/etc one way or another.
>
>The 35mm film I use, I purchase once a year (early spring or late fall
>because of the
>Phoenix heat), in quantities of 40-50 rolls. It gets frozen straight out
>of the UPS package
>- in original canisters, every one inside its original box. When using it,
>particularly for a
>client, I am anally careful to follow the same procedure every time: I
>pull rolls out of the
>freezer as needed, and let them come to room temp - for absolute minimum
>3-4 hours, if
>possible overnight. I have never had a single problem doing this, or so I
>thought.
...
I, and most of my colleagues, have been freezing, then thawing, film, for
decades. Forty five years for me. I have to admit that I have always
processed my own film, regardless of type, and have never experienced
anything that would/could be construed as condensation.
If you got condensation on your film during thawing, and the seal was never
broken, the excess moisture was in/on the film before you froze it. I'm
sure that you don't break the seal on the film before freezing it - if you
do, this could be a problem. Or, if the film is gray market film and was
packaged in a v-e-r-y humid environment.
But, as I said, I've been freezing film for many decades with zero problems
resulting from the freeze-thaw cycle.
Jim
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