Boots Colour slide 200 anyone?

[Steve Roberts]

Hi All,

I've just returned from a visit to Boots, who were touting their "new" Colour slide 200 film with a promotional offer of 3 x 36 exposure rolls for £16 (3 for the price of two) including processing.

Boots' photographic products are usually good value and used to be a staple for many amateurs. Of course, the products are all re-branded but whereas I understand that previous Boots slide films have been Agfa or Ferrania, this "new" film is made in Japan.

Any thoughts as to its origins, anyone? At the price of a little over a fiver a roll, I have to try one !

Best wishes,

Steve

 

[bob100684]

fuji.

 

[mcgrattan]

£16 including processing is quite good.

My local Boots are doing a bunch of special offers on film -- i think they are clearing out their film stock. I bought some Velvia 100 for 2.50 a roll, and some other film (BW400CN and XP2) for less. The film is all long-dated too.

 

[PHOTOTONE]

You should be aware that there are only 2 (two) makers of slide films in the world: Fuji and Kodak, and Kodak does not private label So..it has to be Fuji if it is fresh film. In the past, Agfa was a very large provider of private label films, including E-6.

 

[Brac]

Kodak did change their policy a few years back and were prepared to undertake private label films. Maybe they have changed it again but it seems unlikely. The packaging may give a clue, if it says made in Japan then it would be Fuji.

 

[mcgrattan]

It says made in Japan. I happened to be in Boots the other day and took a quick look.

 

[Steve Roberts]

It says made in Japan. I happened to be in Boots the other day and took a quick look.

It certainly does and what's more as regards Bob's one-word reply to my initial question, when I opened the first box this weekend the clue was on the mailer, where the address is "Fuji Processing Laboratory... etc." !

Had a bit of a shock when I came to post the first film, though. I used to send a single film in its mailer for the price of a letter, currently about 32p, I think. However, UK postal regs have recently changed and now the 35mm film pot is classed as a "small packet" and costs £1.09 to send. Even more silly is that I can send Kodachrome by airmail to Switzerland for only 69 pence! (Perhaps the £1.09 would allow two or three films to go in one package.)

Cheers,

Steve

 

[bob100684]

...I take back my fuji comment. In the lab today, some cvs brand film came through. It used to be konica, but as it was coming out of the film proscessor I noticed on the edgecode "kodak film" no mention of speed or anything, but when put into our negative carrier, it autodetected the dx coding to be kodak 400.

 

[ajuk]

My feeling on Boots is that if they want to sell film they need to reduce there prices, Superia on a 3for2 at £5 a roll isn't cheap! I am not saying it should be 7dayshop prices, where it is less then £1 a roll but £2 a roll would be more like it.
I think if everybody got Colour neg film as cheap as I do film usage in the P&S market would not have fallen quite do dramatically.

Velvia 100 at £2.50 a roll sounds very cheap, although they don't keep it in the fridge.

And when it comes to B&W, well most boots stores that sell B&W film aren't far from from a Jessops anyway so why would I pay £1.50 more for it?

BTW on the postal thing, I have got away with putting a 42p stamp on films before.