None of the film manufacturers are packaging any kind of color films in 100 foot rolls anymore, so far as I know. You won't find any fresh date color slide or negative film available in bulk rolls.
Check Ultrafine for past-date bulk color film. I think all they have right now is Porta 160 that expired in 2009. DYODD when it comes to Ultrafine. Some people are satisfied with their products and services, others are critical.
I got 10 rolls of expired but supposedly cold stored and perfectly good shape Elitechrome 400 from them off eBay. It's crap. I shot one roll - pale pastel colors, looks like, well, expired badly stored film. Shot another roll just to be sure - same thing.
So far I've kept the other eight rolls figuring I'll try cross processing it once I get back into color printing. I have it frozen now. But as far as Ultrafine - never again from me. Fool me once... I'm sure much of what they sell is fine but anyone with an ounce of photographic sense who tested this batch of film could tell it was bad. Bottom line is that I don't trust what they say about their stuff.
As far as "shoot it no matter what the cost" I don't think I ever said THAT, exactly, but we're far from where I'd quit. The closest I come to that is considering moving to all Ilford (and some occasional Foma which has its own old fashioned look) for my 4x5 sheet film, not because I can't afford the amount I shoot in 4x5 but because I like Ilford film fine too and I'm just not sure TMY-2 is worth the price. I confess I've never shot TXP though, having gotten into LF after T-Max films came out, and I really want to while I still can. But it's a pricey indulgence if I'm not staying with it.
Comparing it to a pint of beer (about two pints at Atlanta area pub prices, or a good burger and a pint) is fair. Everything costs, and more than it used to. As a private pilot I just completed my flight review that's required every two years and checked out in a new-to-me style airplane to rent. Think photography is expensive? I could buy a lot of film AND processing for the cost of those three flights with an instructor and the required hour of ground instruction that has to be part of the flight review. Get into flying - ALL your other hobbies will be put into cost perspective! (This is a comment for North America - at European aircraft rental and fuel rates and much of the rest of the world I could not afford it. I could in Canada where it's comparable, however.) I am far from rich. I'm a middle class engineer. But we often find the money to do what we really want to do.
Besides, 35mm shooters (which I am, but less and less as I use MF more and more where I used to use 35mm) could do with slowing down and using less film and more time looking through the viewfinder, composing, and even deciding not to take the shot. That's a big reason that getting into large format improves your images in all formats. Try it if cost is impacting your photography - keep shooting film, but fewer frames. Go out and promise to expose no more than, say, 12 frames in an outing. That's what we get in 6x6 on 120 and I find it's about the perfect roll length for me. Your photographs will benefit greatly.
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