Discontinuation of FP100C

Peter de Groot · Feb 29, 2016

Anybody seen this yet?
https://translate.google.com/transl...//fujifilm.jp/information/articlead_0384.html

Fuji is stopping making Fuji FP100C. End of another era.

jaybob20 · Feb 29, 2016

Sad news, Fuji announces they are pulling the plug on peal apart instant.
I wish I could make this stuff like tintypes. I sometimes snap one of these while waiting for a plate to sensitize. And when the 4x5 stuff was around... we will always have memories.

Press release:
http://fujifilm.jp/information/articlead_0384.html

Rudeofus · Feb 29, 2016

Is this the FP 100 C which fits into the polaroid back of my RZ 67 ?

mweintraub · Feb 29, 2016

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Peter de Groot · Feb 29, 2016

So I started hoarding. Bought 15 packs film at MacoDirect.

NedL · Feb 29, 2016

I really did not want to see this. I have a lot of fun with that film.

Price at B&H and Adorama already $2 more than the average over the past couple years.
It always goes up and down but it hasn't been above $10 before.

Prest_400 · Feb 29, 2016

Bad news. It's paradoxical that Fuji has a quite succesful INSTAX line and could have used that to leverage and give a push to peel apart.

NedL · Feb 29, 2016

Just ordered a bunch. I hope it freezes as well as people say.

NedL · Feb 29, 2016

Possible merge with (there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Or possibly move both to "industry news"??

Ricardo Miranda · Feb 29, 2016

So, that was the next film to be axed.
You were warned: "if you don't use it, you'll loose it".
You lot should have used it more and told every one you knew to use it as well, instead of some crap Digi.
You had a warning when all B&W pack film went away.

Peter de Groot said:
So I started hoarding. Bought 15 packs film at MacoDirect.

You could be buying Instax film instead or...
...have you occurred to ask The Impossible Project to start research towards producing pack film?
You could have sent that money to them.

Wayne · Feb 29, 2016

ah, whats the point of hoarding. Buy it and use it. I can't afford to stockpile so I guess I'm done using it. Damned shame, people sure loved it whenever I used it. Is there anything left that will fit my Polaroid 180?

TheToadMen · Feb 29, 2016

NedL said:
Just ordered a bunch. I hope it freezes as well as people say.

I don't know how Fuji instant film works, but you can't freeze Polaroid or Impossible film. Well, you can put it in the freezer but you'll get in trouble with the liquid chemicals pouch within the film. Does Fuji also use liquid chemical to develop their instant film?

Prest_400 · Feb 29, 2016

Ricardo Miranda said:
...have you occurred to ask The Impossible Project to start research towards producing pack film?
You could have sent that money to them.

Well, as we speak some pack film producing machinery is sitting idle in Japan and might benefit from getting new ownership. IP could grab them and incorporate whatever they have on hand. But not easy.

BAC1967 · Feb 29, 2016

Prest_400 said:
Bad news. It's paradoxical that Fuji has a quite succesful INSTAX line and could have used that to leverage and give a push to peel apart.

Don't freeze it!!! That will ruin it, put it in the refrigerator to extend it's life.

Ricardo Miranda · Feb 29, 2016

Wayne said:
Were you born a dickhead or did you have to work at it?

My dear Wayne,
I'm so sorry you felt offended.
I'm just frustrated that Fuji's accounts felt they weren't selling enough pack films.
I'm just frustrated to find so many over 50s "photographers" hauling around big Digi cameras with even bigger lenses just because they are the latest scream in digital equipment and they can afford to plug £5000+. Even yesterday I saw a group of them, silver heads and all, carrying big cameras trying to do some "street photography". They could do with Albert Eisenstaedt's advice: be unobtrusive and carry as little equipment as possible, blend with the background.
But, the good thing is I see so many younger people, that is under 30, carrying and using film cameras who can hardly afford to spend more than £50-60 for a SLR and spend all their pennies in film. I carry with me some cheap Agfaphoto Vista film just to give it to some youngster that might be in need of it.
I just feel that the Digi majority could once in a while shoot the odd film roll to help keep the machines going on.
It is a pity to see now all pack film going away.
Personally I'm also frustrated with myself, because I never used them.
I spend more than 40% of my income in buying and using 135 film and chemicals.
I can't do more.
But I can try to convince others to use film.

Best regards,
Ricardo

BrianShaw · Feb 29, 2016

Cameras, no matter the technology, are rapidly disappearing. I see more phones being used to take pictures lately.

The windmill you are tilting just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

BrianShaw · Feb 29, 2016

But i am definitely saddened by the news Conveyed in this thread.

Luckless · Feb 29, 2016

Insulting people and suggesting that the tools they choose to use and the styles they work in somehow make them lesser than you is a great way to have people ignore you. One of the biggest things that kept me from diving deeper into film work when I was in my 20s was the level of arrogance and ignorance from many parts of the film community. (Why on earth would I want to spend time in a community where I would often get insulted for using a canon 7D and burst photography to photograph sports?)

BrianShaw said:
Cameras, no matter the technology, are rapidly disappearing. I see more phones being used to take pictures lately.

The windmill you are tilting just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Those phones, if they're taking pictures, are shockingly still cameras. Sure, it might be usable for other tasks, but if it can be used to take a decent picture then it is no less of a camera than one which does nothing but. We are even seeing some of those phones getting design features to make them more usable as cameras rather than having it a feature tacked on as quickly as possible. (multiple cameras, a few designs with interchangeable lens blocks, better physical control buttons, even some designs with actual grips so you can hold the bloody thing.)

BrianShaw · Feb 29, 2016

Of course you are correct. I was using the term "camera" to denote a single function device. I should not admit this on APUG but I use my iPhone almost as much as a film camera to take pictures. For many things that is a quite satisfactory way to produce an image.

But to save both my soul and my reputation, my kid looked so cute doing his homework the other evening so I pulled out the Hasselblad and shot a dozen images. That felt very satisfying.

amellice · Feb 29, 2016

that's weird having couple of other threads where Fuji says that the Instax line is doing good, I don't understand

BrianShaw · Feb 29, 2016

Have you been sniffing mimeograph fumes again? (Smiley face goes here)

winger · Feb 29, 2016

mweintraub said:
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+1 !!!!!!!!!!

skorpiius · Feb 29, 2016

Prest_400 said:
Well, as we speak some pack film producing machinery is sitting idle in Japan and might benefit from getting new ownership. IP could grab them and incorporate whatever they have on hand. But not easy.

Sounds like IP doesn't have the cash, what we need is an IP-like group situated in Japan, or wherever the equipment currently sits who won't have to ship it across the globe to take ownership.

amellice · Feb 29, 2016

it's not even in stock in B&H It says more coming soon but who knows

Prest_400 · Feb 29, 2016

amellice said:
that's weird having couple of other threads where Fuji says that the Instax line is doing good, I don't understand

Peel apart has gotten none of the fuss dedicated to INSTAX nor Fuji used the positioning as a way to present peel apart as another different option.

skorpiius said:
Sounds like IP doesn't have the cash, what we need is an IP-like group situated in Japan, or wherever the equipment currently sits who won't have to ship it across the globe to take ownership.

Agree with that. IP is quite busy with the heavy R&D of the film and don't think they would be able to handle more pressure. A group could buy the facility as it is and it would require no changes, assuming all is still in place. Thinking about this, it may be possible that some component has become banned/unavailable and they decided to just drop it entirely.

Discontinuation of FP100C

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