Current comparable prices at B&H:The next big question - How Much does it cost?
Trendland must have inside sources...
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.
Not really - it came on as the replacement for Vericolour, which also featured realistic colour and moderate contrast.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)?
E6 has never been a cheap path to follow and cost will follow the expense of production. Economics forbids you paying a little and getting a lot.
What about Ektachrome in 120? Is there any info about that?
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 (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.
Firstcall have it listed in the new products section of their website at £13.99 per roll, cheaper than velvia which is £16.99, and the same price as ProviaFirstCall Photographic in the UK listed Ektachrome in their latest print catalogue, which I received a couple of weeks ago, at £9.99
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.[/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
with regards
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