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The next big question - How Much does it cost?
 

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It'll cost less than 17,- bucks (the expected price last year) and this seams to be good news from the very beginning.
(What less than 17,- bucks will mean in reality depends on you dealer....)
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Trendland must have inside sources... bandit:

Ultimately they had better keep it competitive with Fuji's offerings. If it's more expensive than the average Provia roll, then I will buy Ektachrome exactly once and then switch back to Provia. It's not a magic golden goose; it's just another film. If they want my business they have to appeal to my wallet.
 

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E*N*J*O*Y!!!
 
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Re: the Kodak Alaris website-

Anyone else amused that the demonstration picture for Portra 800 is not a portrait (Rather, the Brooklyn bridge at night in landscape format)?
 

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Just placed a pre-order for 15 rolls at $11/roll! Can't wait. Expected shipping is first week of Oct.
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Trendland must have inside sources... bandit:

Ultimately they had better keep it competitive with Fuji's offerings. If it's more expensive than the average Provia roll, then I will buy Ektachrome exactly once and then switch back to Provia. It's not a magic golden goose; it's just another film. If they want my business they have to appeal to my wallet.

E6 has never been a cheap path to follow (NB: the real cost is the film + processing), and cost will follow the expense of production. An introductory "cheap" price would not be unexpected. What happens after that will be interesting. Besides which, economics forbids you paying a little and getting a lot. :whistling:
 
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Re: the Kodak Alaris website-

Anyone else amused that the demonstration picture for Portra 800 is not a portrait (Rather, the Brooklyn bridge at night in landscape format)?
Not really - it came on as the replacement for Vericolour, which also featured realistic colour and moderate contrast.
 
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I'm hoping FPP lists it soon. I am off of work on October 8 and would like to start shooting some fall scenes on Ektachrome in the limited time I have. The extra day or two to ship the film from Utah, Washington, or California might find it stuck in transit when I want to have it loaded in my Maxxum.
 

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FirstCall Photographic in the UK listed Ektachrome in their latest print catalogue, which I received a couple of weeks ago, at £9.99
 

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In my opinion the price is fair.
E6 has never been as cheap as colour neg.

If speaking only about the cost of the camera filmstock, this is true. Color negative film was the most affordable color stock, with Kodachrome costing a little more, and Ektachrome costing more yet.
These prices were not set to maximum price yield. Kodachrome had reversal layers, a yellow silver dye layer, and a remjet black backing layer that color negative film did not need. Ektachrome was even more expensive as the film also needed integral color couplers (in Kodachrome, the colors were added in the processing stage).
In 1996, my wife and I took a trip through Utah and Arizona, and, at time, I was buying 35mm Sensia 100 24x for less than $2.50 from The Film Shop NYC...
 

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If speaking only about the cost of the camera filmstock, this is true. Color negative film was the most affordable color stock, with Kodachrome costing a little more, and Ektachrome costing more yet.
These prices were not set to maximum price yield. Kodachrome had reversal layers, a yellow silver dye layer, and a remjet black backing layer that color negative film did not need. Ektachrome was even more expensive, as the film also needed integral color couplers (in Kodachrome, the colors were added in the processing stage).
In 1996, my wife and I took a trip through Utah and Arizona, and, at time, I was buying 35mm Sensia 100 24x for less than $2.50 from The Film Shop NYC (I think 2.29), and got the film processed for $1.79/roll at F&M Drug Emporium (chain now defunct). Marc's in the Cleveland area was charging $1.49! So, the end price of slides was cheaper than color prints even then.
Go back a couple decades before that, and color prints were much more expensive than slides. Every color print was made manually, one by one, by a man who set the color correction and timed each paper exposure. Thus, it was common practice to shoot slide film, and order prints only from the very best slides.
 

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Has the ability to edit a post been withdrawn?

That post was supposed to start with post #14 by MinoltaFan.
 

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E6 has never been a cheap path to follow (NB: the real cost is the film + processing), and cost will follow the expense of production. An introductory "cheap" price would not be unexpected. What happens after that will be interesting. Besides which, economics forbids you paying a little and getting a lot. :whistling:[/QUTE]
Let me short tell you : Kodak has absolute no idea how many Ektachromes they are able to sell
(135-36/month) nevertheless of intensive market research.(this info is not coming out of Kodak sources of course)
Reality is often not the same as expection.
So we might see a situation next where Ektachrome is sold out intermediately. No fear Kodak is obviously able to feed the market with bigger amounds.
But the pricing today is realy a "strong buy" you perhaps will not such low priced Ektachromes ever again.
And for the last stated you realy need no sources to come to following conclusion : "This is the key strategy of Kodak marketing". (nice priced entry into a revival market)
I would buy Ektachromes today in amounds you need next years and freeze them if I were you.
Think about

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