Fuji film prices and other news

[Mainecoonmaniac]

http://petapixel.com/2015/07/13/fujifilm-to-raise-prices-and-kill-film-lines-yet-again/#more-171870

 

[pentaxuser]

No mention of Fuji's chromogenic B&W C41 film, allegedly made for Fuji by Ilford. As Acros is being discontinued I take it that Fuji will cease all production of trad B&W?

I am surprised that not even Acros in the trad B&W range is profitable or close enough to being so to justify continuation

pentaxuser

 

[MattKing]

No mention of Fuji's chromogenic B&W C41 film, allegedly made for Fuji by Ilford. As Acros is being discontinued I take it that Fuji will cease all production of trad B&W?

I am surprised that not even Acros in the trad B&W range is profitable or close enough to being so to justify continuation

pentaxuser

That table shows Acros as being subject to a price increase, not a discontinuation.

 

[pentaxuser]

That table shows Acros as being subject to a price increase, not a discontinuation.

Thanks I had misunderstood the word CUT. I took it to mean "discontinued" not realising that it is CUT as in sheet film, conflating as I did this chart with the second reporting likely discontinuations in the near future

Interesting that there will be no increase in the chromogenic B&W film price, apparently. Maybe Fuji should ask Ilford to make all its film for it. Ship its colour and reversal film machinery to Cheshire then we can have the full range at no price increase and resurrect Neopan 400 as well

We get what we want and Simon Galley and the other directors get their retirement yachts in the Bahamas. It's called a WIN/WIN scenario

On a slightly more serious note I wonder what it is about the chromogenic B&W that allows Fuji to hold its price. I'd have thought its volume sales weren't that high, competing as it does with Ilford's own XP2+ or is that the price-hold reason in a nutshell, namely it has to compete with XP2+?.

pentaxuser

 

[AgX]

There is already a long thread on this topic:
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

 

[benjiboy]

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