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Posted by Chris Fries (Member # 2719) on March 23, 2012, 11:16 AM:

Has anyone seen this seller on eBay? mbeamer5. There a four super 8 digests for sale. All have been "stored for over 35 years in a shoe box in heated garage!" Not exactly what I would call a great selling point.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Film-/63821/i.html?_ipg=&_from=&_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ssn=mbeamer5

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on March 23, 2012, 12:40 PM:

Ha! Now there's honestly for ya! Refreshing! Watch, the lousy films will double in price overnight! [Big Grin]

Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 23, 2012, 01:01 PM:

The wayit reads to me...it sounds like this guy thinks storing them in the shoe box in a heated garage is a good thing.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on March 23, 2012, 01:38 PM:

I'd be happier with "Stored in a heated and air conditioned garage", but hey: at least it's Ohio and not Arizona or Texas!

Truth: If I wanted the print badly enough and the price was OK I'd take the gamble.

I just bought four prints from an antique seller who couldn't look at them first. They turned out to be pretty close to perfect (leaders cut on the diagonal: probably never projected.) The odds were respectable I'd wind up with red faded garbage, but that chance was worth it!

Posted by Nicholas Cook (Member # 2973) on March 23, 2012, 09:07 PM:

Sounds fine to me.

I'm thinking he means that the garage was heated along with the rest of the house, so in the winter, it remained at a comfortable temperature.

I'd feel more comfortable buying film that had been kept at a relatively constant temp. for 35 years as opposed to film that had gone from 30 below in the winter to 40 degrees in the summer for three and a half decades.

Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on March 24, 2012, 04:35 PM:

I'm inclined to agree with Nicholas - there can't be many people who can afford to keep their garage warm even if it has some heating!

Posted by Chris Fries (Member # 2719) on March 24, 2012, 05:36 PM:

Yes, a comfortable temperature sounds great except that he did not say the garage was air conditioned in the summer. In the last 35 years we have had our fair share of hot summers in Ohio. I know my garage gets really hot in July. Not so good for film.

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on March 24, 2012, 06:25 PM:

I had the pleasure of checking out a large number of Super8 films that had come from a film library. Those films had been stored in very warm conditions in the summer months and as a result, badly faded. Only a handfull of films were any good out of the 100 or so looked at.
I think a cool dry place is the best bet.

Graham.

Posted by Scott Mallory (Member # 2393) on March 26, 2012, 10:32 PM:

The best place I have to store my films is a guestroom closet. Not too hot or cold, but I wouldn't call it cool either. I have cleaned and lubed them all with Filmguard and store them in plastic cans (some ventilated). Should mine be okay? I don't have a basement.

Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on March 27, 2012, 12:06 PM:

Scott, that sounds like the best available option... steady temperature and humidity.

Posted by Scott Mallory (Member # 2393) on March 28, 2012, 08:56 PM:

Thanks Bill.

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