Yeah NO way in an icy Hades any price drop anywhere at any point in the future.
For those of us who have been users of Fuji products since the 1980's the pattern is the same. Which IMO comes from how Fuji works; they make a huge amount in giant runs and then well after they stopped production the announce the discontinuation (of course citing "reduced demand"), they then keep jacking the price until its gone. They wring out excessive profits on R&D that was paid for decades ago on equipment that was paid for and already scrapped in some cases. Instead of putting that money into a better product or keep one going they've walked away well before anyone knows.
Its a chickensh** way to do business.
All the while 'claiming' to support film and losing tremendous money on digital trinkets; check the Sipa numbers for the state of the digital camera market. I for one have long stopped purchasing any Fuji products and actively campaign to people who ask what digital camera to get to never buy Fuji products at all. You guys do what you want, but thats what I'm doing having been burned by the loss of too many products such as Velvia Astia Neopan 400 (REALLY FUJI? A 400 speed T grain emulsion is too hard with no demand??) and mark my words ACROS final run has been made and this film will go soon as well (notice the price bump? a sure sign its dead now).
It already is a National tragedy that decades of fine Japanese cameras will have no Japanese film left to put in them and Fuji executives should be publicly SHAMED for this point alone. And for any rebuttal that its all about the economies of scale and dropping demand hasn't been paying attention to what is going on (78,000+ APUG users and growing) and I'll say it again; Fuji will sell every single box of FP-100c. "Reduced Demand" my big hairy A**.
F**kFuji
For those of us who have been users of Fuji products since the 1980's the pattern is the same. Which IMO comes from how Fuji works; they make a huge amount in giant runs and then well after they stopped production the announce the discontinuation (of course citing "reduced demand"), they then keep jacking the price until its gone. They wring out excessive profits on R&D that was paid for decades ago on equipment that was paid for and already scrapped in some cases. Instead of putting that money into a better product or keep one going they've walked away well before anyone knows.
Its a chickensh** way to do business.
All the while 'claiming' to support film and losing tremendous money on digital trinkets; check the Sipa numbers for the state of the digital camera market. I for one have long stopped purchasing any Fuji products and actively campaign to people who ask what digital camera to get to never buy Fuji products at all. You guys do what you want, but thats what I'm doing having been burned by the loss of too many products such as Velvia Astia Neopan 400 (REALLY FUJI? A 400 speed T grain emulsion is too hard with no demand??) and mark my words ACROS final run has been made and this film will go soon as well (notice the price bump? a sure sign its dead now).
It already is a National tragedy that decades of fine Japanese cameras will have no Japanese film left to put in them and Fuji executives should be publicly SHAMED for this point alone. And for any rebuttal that its all about the economies of scale and dropping demand hasn't been paying attention to what is going on (78,000+ APUG users and growing) and I'll say it again; Fuji will sell every single box of FP-100c. "Reduced Demand" my big hairy A**.
F**kFuji