Fuji Discontinues some films

cupcake_ham · Mar 10, 2010

Scott at the Inside Analog Photography Radio has posted that he has confirmed Fuji is discontinuing the following:

Fuji Pro160S - All sizes
Fuji Pro160C - All sizes
Fuji 800Z - All sizes
Fuji T64 - All sizes
Fuji Neopan 400 - 120 size

Possible consolidation of E6 lines is also a possibility.

For now, Fuji 400H is safe. The unfortunate thing is that with the 160 films vanishing, there are no longer any C41 films from Fuji for 4x5 or 8x10 view cameras!

TareqPhoto · Mar 10, 2010

David Luttmann said:
Scott at the Inside Analog Photography Radio has posted that he has confirmed Fuji is discontinuing the following:

Fuji Pro160S - All sizes
Fuji Pro160C - All sizes
Fuji 800Z - All sizes
Fuji T64 - All sizes
Fuji Neopan 400 - 120 size

Possible consolidation of E6 lines is also a possibility.

For now, Fuji 400H is safe. The unfortunate thing is that with the 160 films vanishing, there are no longer any C41 films from Fuji for 4x5 or 8x10 view cameras!

I am not sure if i have to stop shooting with film as i just started not so long, 2 rolls so far only, and i even was planning to add a large format, so now i am not sure if it is a good idea to keep going with film now before i start it seriously even.

cupcake_ham · Mar 10, 2010

There are still a mountain of different films available to keep you going for many, many years!

TareqPhoto · Mar 10, 2010

David Luttmann said:
There are still a mountain of different films available to keep you going for many, many years!

Even i am not sure about that as i feel all film brands discontinuing their line of certain films day by day, Kodak did, Ilford did, Rollei,...etc, so what is there that they will not discontinue forever? and honestly i wish if they DisC something at least they produce alternatives or even better products than those stopped produced.

Pinholemaster · Mar 11, 2010

Fuji Pro 160S in 8x10 sheet film is my favorite. Shame on them.

TSSPro · Mar 11, 2010

Boo Hiss!

pellicle · Mar 11, 2010

before everyone gets carried away, are you sure there are no C-41 alternatives? I would be surprised ... still Kodak is a choice

I don't see any announcements on their WWW site

cupcake_ham · Mar 11, 2010

pellicle said:
before everyone gets carried away, are you sure there are no C-41 alternatives? I would be surprised ... still Kodak is a choice

I don't see any announcements on their WWW site

The only C41 films avail in 4x5 and up were the pro line....now gone.

Thomas Bertilsson · Mar 11, 2010

Kodak has the lion's share of the negative color film market due to its presence in the movie industry. Fuji has the lion's share of the E6 market. If Fuji is discontinuing C41 films and E6 continue to drop like a rock in air, they must be seeing some fairly serious trouble.

The Neopan 400 120 format obsolescence is also troubling. They sell the 35mm version to Freestyle as 'Legacy Pro 400', so that may well be the reason why only the 120 format is going away.

But who knows, besides Fuji?

We need to buy more film, use more film, and support our favorites as much as we can.

nsouto · Mar 11, 2010

David Luttmann said:
Fuji is discontinuing the following:

Fuji Pro160S - All sizes
Fuji Pro160C - All sizes
Fuji 800Z - All sizes
Fuji T64 - All sizes
Fuji Neopan 400 - 120 size

For now, Fuji 400H is safe.

Hmmmm, pro160 is no great loss for me: I stopped using it a while ago, there is much better now for 135 and 120.

800Z is a big loss for me: I love that film, it's the only high speed C41 film worth using in 135! I hope they keep it in 135 format at least. The consumer level Xtra-800 is nowhere near as good.

T64 is an unknown to me.
Neopan 400 120 is a loss, but there are plenty of alternatives.

I was kind of expecting something like this to happen.
The GFC has hit everyone hard.
Pro160 has been used mostly by pros for a long time.
Those have progressively moved to digital, so there is very little demand for "pro-class" film.
Consumer level will stay for a while longer.

The biggest problem is gonna be the niche markets, like LF 4X5 and 8X10, unfortunately. 120 and 135 are still relatively active.

David Callard · Jul 2, 2010

Time for a saviour?

David Luttmann said:
The only C41 films avail in 4x5 and up were the pro line....now gone.

I agree this is getting scary. Of course the answer is largely in our hands: If we keep buying film the manufacturers will keep making it. But I suggest there is another problem in that film is simply not marketed any more - who can remember an advertisement promoting emulsion? It seems, to me anyway, that the companies are only manufacturing for us few diehards and doing little to actively promote what was until so recently their staple product. Film needs to be made fashionable again. What do others think?

If it is really going to be the case that the big three are going to try to gradually wean us off film (fat chance!) I wonder if some new entrepreneurial party (China, India?) might step up to pick up the pieces? Perhaps to manufacture under licence?

In the cause of integrity I must admit to sitting astride the fence here. Yes, I do shoot digital as well but at 60 years of age my devotion to film remains unshaken.

Over...

Marco B · Jul 2, 2010

To be honest, I have the distinct feeling many of these films were hardly available in many countries. Maybe the situation is different in the US, but in smaller countries like the Netherlands and probably also other countries in Europe, the availability of this kind of film, was problematic. So, I am not surprised to see them going...

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