I mentioned in a previous post that I have a bit of a film stash that I'm slowing working through, so I wanted to share some more details. I find it interesting to see what stock film photographers have on hand. I'm on the lower end of the scale I think, normally having around a dozen rolls of 35mm film in the fridge. However just as I was getting into medium format cameras, I purchased a bulk lot of medium format film when a local photography studio closed down. They had gone bust and an auction house was selling off pretty much everything.
Desks, books, computers, backdrops, projectors, cameras, scanners and much more. There were some nice Hasselblad 500c cameras up for grabs, but none went cheap. There were also a couple of Nikon Coolscan 9000's in the auction, which I was interested in, but seriously underestimated their value. Unfortunately they had bundled the two scanners together in one lot, and whilst I had hopes they might be sleepers, they went for about $1500 AUD (for the pair). Which looking back was probably a good deal with the prices they now fetch on eBay and the like.
All of the film stock was bundled together into one lot, and again I hoped it might fly under the radar. I ended up winning the lot, but it cost me a bit more that I originally hoped. Of most value were the boxes of Ilford FP4+, which made up most of the lot. All of the film had expired, but the Ilford was from 2004/5, so wasn't too bad. The rolls of C41 and E6 film were mostly from the 1980's and 90's, but a big unknown was how the film had been stored.
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