the free film

kumate_champ07

I got a couple of boxes and could have gone back a few times to get the rest but I told the guy I'd leave it so that some of the other guys from here could get some. Anything I'm not using is been given to friends. If theres people sellin the stuff im goin to get the rest of the boxes and either give them to my friends or put them on ebay for free with only postage costs, what are the chances someone gets them for free on ebay and sells them on tho?

Maybe they should go to photography students or community art groups

dazftw

Give em to people on here!? I know id like some but theres no unicare here in Waterford or the surrounding counties and ive no car

kumate_champ07

dazftw wrote: »

Give em to people on here!? I know id like some but theres no unicare here in Waterford or the surrounding counties and ive no car

Im gonna try get some more. I can send you 30 rolls if you pay postage.
I can post them tomorrow if you pay me postage thru paypal asap or I can post next wednesday when I have the cash to do so and you can pay when you receive them?

dazftw

How much for postage? I can pay right now yeah...

mayordenis

I'm also dying to get some - was sickened when I found that ebay guy today I might even be up in dublin at the weekend but would be delighted to pay postage costs also. Let me know

FX Meister

I like the way the ebay guy is going to sell his to pay for different film. I've got tons of the stuff so I might swap some for other film myself to use.

kumate_champ07

FX Meister wrote: »

I like the way the ebay guy is going to sell his to pay for different film. I've got tons of the stuff so I might swap some for other film myself to use.

he has it listed as superia and its NOT superia, not sure if the boxes have been stored in a fridge with other medications by Unicare.

I think its ethically wrong to sell it on for free when alot of people here could do something with it. Im sure he told Unicare he was gonna use it all himself, I doubt they would give it away so people could sell it on.

kumate_champ07

mayordenis wrote: »

I'm also dying to get some - was sickened when I found that ebay guy today I might even be up in dublin at the weekend but would be delighted to pay postage costs also. Let me know

Ive pm'd the guy from waterford with an post prices. gonna see how much film i can get 2moro. Ill prob be able to send u 30rolls as well but cant commit to any more for anyone else at this point.

up to 1kg its around 6euro for standard post, up to 1.5kg its around 14 for express next working day delivery. 30 should be <1kg

http://postage.anpost.ie/weight.asp?country=IE

Im too tired to check again, thats a rough idea above and thats the link for official prices. I wont be charging over what it costs me to post it, tho if theres paypal fees I cant take them on myself, should be around 1euro I'd say.

kumate_champ07

to be honest its not the greatest of films. Its usable tho.

nice to be able to shoot with wide angle lenses and actually get wide angle

ThOnda

Hello

I still don't have any free films And I would like to give it a go, twenty or thirty rolls.

Any offers are more than welcome. And I could collect from Tullamore this weekend.

mayordenis

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

Ive pm'd the guy from waterford with an post prices. gonna see how much film i can get 2moro. Ill prob be able to send u 30rolls as well but cant commit to any more for anyone else at this point.

up to 1kg its around 6euro for standard post, up to 1.5kg its around 14 for express next working day delivery. 30 should be <1kg

http://postage.anpost.ie/weight.asp?country=IE

Im too tired to check again, thats a rough idea above and thats the link for official prices. I wont be charging over what it costs me to post it, tho if theres paypal fees I cant take them on myself, should be around 1euro I'd say.

you just let me know - I'm not one of these people who is afraid of transferring it to your bank account but anyway let me know we'll sort it out - no way I would expect you to pay cent of course we can bang on a couple of quid to cover the effort/packaging etc.

dazftw

Im 100% certain standard post will be fine within Ireland.

artyeva

if anyone has any spare i'd really appreciate it. i'd be more than willing to pay postage, and send an S.A. jiffy E.

there's no unicare in sligo, and the only one in mayo had never heard of the offer.

jao

ThOnda wrote: »

Hello

I still don't have any free films And I would like to give it a go, twenty or thirty rolls.

Any offers are more than welcome. And I could collect from Tullamore this weekend.

Ill send some down to tullamore for you.

humberklog

artyeva wrote: »

if anyone has any spare i'd really appreciate it. i'd be more than willing to pay postage, and send an S.A. jiffy E.

there's no unicare in sligo, and the only one in mayo had never heard of the offer.

I can pop 20 rolls down to Mayo. PM details, no bother. I could pop the Olympus Trip in too if you want that for a week or two? I recall you metioning an interest in one on another thread.


Dazft you aren't you in the same region as and friends with fajitas? I gave him a box of about a hundred for NCAD, he might still have a few. Maybe he's eaten them.

Fajitas!

I was hungry :-/

I better update my location...

Darren, if you've access to a car, pop out to me before the day is out - I think you have my number, I'll be gone tomorrow!

artyeva

humberklog wrote: »

I can pop 20 rolls down to Mayo. PM details, no bother. I could pop the Olympus Trip in too if you want that for a week or two? I recall you metioning an interest in one on another thread.quote]

you are indeed a gentleman and a scholar. PM sent. looking forward to giving the trip a bashing a nice bubble wrapped jaunt round the north mayo bog

Mycroft H

Lads blanchardstown unicare still has about four or five boxes (100 roll boxes) of the stuff.

I have 130 rolls in the freezer if anyone needs any in the near future, though ive no way of accepting payments

kumate_champ07

Nice, I was hoping the thread would turn this way. Im about to go out and try get some more film.

It would be a shame for people to stock up on it and leave most of it sitting there being unused.

If everyone with a couple of hundred rolls or more than they can use could send a few to their country cousins that would be great!

I dont need packaging costs, ill just get some cardboard boxes from local stores and Ive tape here, its not for any profit.

back soon...

trishw78

Darren there's a unicare in Dungravan, haven't been down to it yet.

Placebo

i need film, some one pm me

kumate_champ07

dazftw
mayordenis
thonda
artyeva
placebo

40rolls each for 6.50euro(possibly 7.50, weighing them tomorrow) with standard post


anyone else?

only ask if you will actually use them. It could cost 5 euro each roll to develop and scan to cd with no prints. thats 200euro for those 40rolls, not including prints. some places charge 8euro for negatives and scan to cd.

You might get it done for 1euro a roll if you do it in bulk and just have the film developed,(no cd or prints). an epson v300 would be a good choice if you only have around 100ish euro to spend on a film scanner.

You would actually get better scans from the v300 than the usual fuji frontiera machine or whatever its called that most places have. Its pretty old and sometimes oversharpens, the scans are low res too. most people working them dont know how to change settings, its possible to export as tiff but they are usually set to jpeg and maybe 3mp files.

Ghost Train

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

anyone else?

Yes, would love to get some if you have enough. Asked in the unicare stores in Blackrock but they didn't have any left. Going to try developing at home if I can.

Fajitas!

There's one in Clonmel too if that's any good to you!

kumate_champ07

Ghost Train wrote: »

Yes, would love to get some if you have enough. Asked in the unicare stores in Blackrock but they didn't have any left. Going to try developing at home if I can.

pretty complicated to do color film at home. u need complete darkness, no red/amber light.

DaireQuinlan

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

pretty complicated to do color film at home. u need complete darkness, no red/amber light.

Developing the film is pretty easy, you need exactly as much darkness as developing B&W. I.E. 100% :-)
Doing colour PRINTS at home on the other hand is a whole different ball game.

Ghost Train

Yes, will be just film, have tried digitizing a few old negitives and that seems to work okay. Have read the manual for development tank I ordered and it seems to make loading film straight forward enough, have ordered small C-41 kit and have read a few guides. Bit worried about how accurate you have to be with temperature and time and have to work out where I will do it. I guess if I follow the instructions carefully it should be okay. Really like the look of your photos Daire, might be sending you some questions if thats okay.

Placebo

thanks kumate, i live in city center if that helps at all, but ive no problem in paying postage etc
sure round it off to 10 euro.

DaireQuinlan

Ghost Train wrote: »

Yes, will be just film, have tried digitizing a few old negitives and that seems to work okay. Have read the manual for development tank I ordered and it seems to make loading film straight forward enough, have ordered small C-41 kit and have read a few guides. Bit worried about how accurate you have to be with temperature and time and have to work out where I will do it. I guess if I follow the instructions carefully it should be okay. Really like the look of your photos Daire, might be sending you some questions if thats okay.

Sure thing. Might be better leaving them on a thread though so everyone can read them. I try to be as accurate as possible with temps/times but I've found that it doesn't matter QUITE as much as the instructions say, provided you're prepared to do some colour correction in post. Specified temp for c-41 is 38.5c +/- 0.25. I generally make up my mixtures to 39c, and pre-soak the film in water of the same temperature. Then I dump it in, agitate once at the start, again at 30'' and once more for the final 10 sec before dumping out the developer and doing a wash.
One other thing which will simplify it enormously, the times and temperatures are only vital for the first, development, step. Both the bleach and fix steps (or combined blix step if you're using a 2 bath kit) are process to completion, so the temperature can be anything from about 25 -> 45 or so and you just have to be careful to leave them in for at LEAST the time specified, and agitate properly.

As an example, that last roll of Ektar on my stream (last few shots up) I accidentally developed for about 30'' longer than I should have done ... it's easy to lose track of what you're doing when the entire dev step is only 3' 15'' :rolleyes:

Also those chemicals, provided they're stored properly, last for a whole while longer than claimed on the box. I've had mine for over a year. They were fuji hunt chemicals though, full 5L 4 bath kit. I store them in their component bits and make up 500ml at a time as I need it. I've put about 30->40 films through it at this stage, which translates to about €1 per film development.

melekalikimaka

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

Also those chemicals, provided they're stored properly, last for a whole while longer than claimed on the box. I've had mine for over a year. They were fuji hunt chemicals though, full 5L 4 bath kit. I store them in their component bits and make up 500ml at a time as I need it. I've put about 30->40 films through it at this stage, which translates to about €1 per film development.

have ever tried xpro? i'm considering buying a reel tank and some cheap e6 kit and giving it a stab myself... seems pretty simple, theres even 3 stage colour kits like bw.

Ghost Train

Excellent, thats great info, thanks Daire. Did read in one post here that you can do it at 30 degrees for longer, so might be an option if I need to make things easier, will see what the instructions say.
Still not sure what the camera I got is like at taking photos, so might get the first roll developed in the shop this weekend and try myself after that.

kumate_champ07 20 rolls would probably be enough to get me started as long as its not taking away film you might use yourself, and if I did end up not using it, could pass it on to other boardsies.

DaireQuinlan

melekalikimaka wrote: »

have ever tried xpro? i'm considering buying a reel tank and some cheap e6 kit and giving it a stab myself... seems pretty simple, theres even 3 stage colour kits like bw.

I've done E-6 in c-41 at home all right. Do a tag search for x-pro on my stream, I've got a few up. This is probably my favourite, Fuji 64t in C-41 :



never done C-41 in E-6 chems.

melekalikimaka

sorry thats what i meant.how many xpro rolls ya get outta a batch, i hear the slides scuzz the chems or somethin?

DaireQuinlan

melekalikimaka wrote: »

sorry thats what i meant.how many xpro rolls ya get outta a batch, i hear the slides scuzz the chems or somethin?

I do up 500ml at a time, typically when I have two rolls I want to process, because I have two tanks. I process those initial two rolls and keep the 500ml for a few weeks and use it as needed and then toss it and do up another 500ml when I need it. So far I've used up about 90% of the chemicals, so 9 batches, and out of each batch I get anywhere between 2 and 6 rolls of 35mm & 120. It all depends on what I'm using. Normally I'd do xpro with already used chems, but I don't think I ever get to the point where I'm exhausting the stuff. I could probably keep it even for longer, couple of months maybe, and re-use it loads, but I err on the side of caution, film is all I shoot so I tend to be careful.

FX Meister

Hi Daire, do you have a different scanner for your 120?

DaireQuinlan

FX Meister wrote: »

Hi Daire, do you have a different scanner for your 120?

Yep. Coolscan V for 35mm, cheapo Canonscan 8600 for my 120.

Slidinginfinity

Was in nutgrove today and stopped into the unicare picked up another 300 rolls of the free film. I picked it up not for myself but, to give to others.
So, if you are in Dublin and can meet up near Stevens Green. I will gladly hand you free film.

rahtkennades

Slidinginfinity wrote: »

Was in nutgrove today and stopped into the unicare picked up another 300 rolls of the free film. I picked it up not for myself but, to give to others.
So, if you are in Dublin and can meet up near Stevens Green. I will gladly hand you free film.

Hey Slidinginfinity,

As usual I'm way slow on getting any of this film!

I'll be in the city tomorrow and could meet you around Stephens' Green if you still have this? After work? I'd be interested in 4 or 5 rolls if you have lots? There'll be the price of a pint in it for the effort! (or suitable substitute).

Slidinginfinity

Only 5 rolls? not a problem.
PM me contact info.

rahtkennades

Slidinginfinity wrote: »

Only 5 rolls? not a problem.
PM me contact info.

Great! PM sent.

katiemaloe

landyman wrote: »

Lads blanchardstown unicare still has about four or five boxes (100 roll boxes) of the stuff.

I have 130 rolls in the freezer if anyone needs any in the near future, though ive no way of accepting payments

Hi Landy,
Was that recently that Unicare in Blanch had four boxes? I got 20 rolls from them a couple of weeks ago but they didn't have much more to spare. I'd love some more cos I seem to fly through film! Here is a pic I took with it on Friday.... the colours are excellent. I work in a camera shop/ photo lab and Id be hard pushed to tell that it isnt superia.

Tallon

katiemaloe wrote: »

I work in a camera shop/ photo lab

Any chance of a boards discount? :rolleyes:

katiemaloe

Tallon wrote: »

Any chance of a boards discount? :rolleyes:

Ill have to ask the boss. Do ya mean for printing or camera gear?

Tallon

katiemaloe wrote: »

Ill have to ask the boss. Do ya mean for printing or camera gear?

well mainly developing!
But if camera gear could be added, i wouldn't be sad

katiemaloe

probably not on cameras cos the margin is tiny. Ill ask about printing, maybe a discount on the free film thing! Ill post details if he says yes

Slidinginfinity

katiemaloe wrote: »

Hi Landy,
Was that recently that Unicare in Blanch had four boxes? I got 20 rolls from them a couple of weeks ago but they didn't have much more to spare. I'd love some more cos I seem to fly through film! Here is a pic I took with it on Friday.... the colours are excellent. I work in a camera shop/ photo lab and Id be hard pushed to tell that it isnt superia.

I picked up 300 rols today to share If you are nearish to stevens green I would be happy to bring you 20-50 rolls.

katiemaloe

Slidinginfinity wrote: »

I picked up 300 rols today to share If you are nearish to stevens green I would be happy to bring you 20-50 rolls.

Wow thats cool- thanks! I'm not sure when I'll be in town next... Ill PM you to arrange something. Thanks a mil!

Slidinginfinity

I will be running errands and dropping off some film to rahtkennades around Stevens Green today between 2 and 3.
If anyone else wants some of the free film and will be in that general vicinity, PM me before 1.:D
Will be happy to bring extra along.:)

kumate_champ07

sorry guys, not had any spare cash to post anything and it takes a week for paypal funds to transfer to a bank account.

will have money tomorrow and can post 40 rolls to anyone who still needs them. 7.50 should cover it and ill throw in a few extra if the weight is still bellow max.

pm me details if youre still interested.

I will need name and address.
I will give you mine if u want to post cash/cheque or I can give you my paypal details.
paypal will cost a bit over 7.50 as they charge me a percentage to receive a payment

Slidinginfinity

What with all the free film floating around, I thought I would try my hand at pinhole photos.
I think this is the one I am going to try and build*.




*sometime in the next month or so

artyeva

Slidinginfinity wrote: »

I think this is the one I am going to try and build*.

excellent link - cheers for sharing that. i've made one of these before years ago but these are much easier and clearer instructions. might give it a go me'sel.:)