Fuji Raises Film Prices

[Karl K]

Across the board prices increases, approximately 10%-15% on Fuji Films, become effective 8-01-08, .

 

[synj00]

Awwww man!

 

[Paul Verizzo]

As the dollar will soon the Zimbabwe pound....

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

Must be that Fuji-San is going to try his darndest to make us switch to digital. It aint gonna happen. It just aint.

 

[Paul Verizzo]

It's the value of the dollar, dude....

Must be that Fuji-San is going to try his darndest to make us switch to digital. It aint gonna happen. It just aint.

Nothing to do with financial persuasion.

I love blue cheese. The least expensive around her has gone from just under $9/lb in October to almost $12 now. I'm in withdrawal.....

 

[Moopheus]

Must be that Fuji-San is going to try his darndest to make us switch to digital. It aint gonna happen. It just aint.

I'm sure Fuji-San would like for the cost of materials (silver, plastic, etc) and transport to go down again, and it's presumably affecting all facets of their business, not just film.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

Nothing to do with financial persuasion.

I love blue cheese. The least expensive around her has gone from just under $9/lb in October to almost $12 now. I'm in withdrawal.....

Your point of undoing Mister! I'm in total withdrawal after a 6.5 reading of cholesterol. I sinned. Badly. I pigged out on a long bicycle tour in March and again in April on gourmet cheese: blue vein, King Island Vintage Brie, Vintage Camembert, and finished up with a 9-day photographic orgy of waterfalls, rainforests and gourmet chocolate shops. Hell, imagine the hissy fits if cheese, cappuccinos, chocolates and whatnots went up 10-15%.

Still, I'm in withdrawal (no chocs, no cheese, skinny milk cuppas) and everything is coming down just nicely. :rolleyes:

 

[coriana6jp]

Actually Fuji already raised thier prices here in Japan at the beginning of June by the same amount. The price increase for everybody else just followed a little later.

Gary

 

[Paul Verizzo]

Poisson, I feel your pain!

Me, I'm counting on good genes until the plug gets pulled.

 

[Vonder]

Good!

Prices go up, people buy less, Fuji goes under..?

Won't happen.

Why? Because Fuji makes the best film. They should charge a premium for it. I adore Reala and Acros and Astia. Heck, even a lil' Velvia or provia now and then.

I'm eagerly awaiting Fuji's counterpunch to Tmax 400's improvements...

--Wolfeye, unabashed Fuji lover--

 

[IloveTLRs]

10~15% ... that's not too bad.

For 35mm I shoot mostly Kodak though, because they still make 100' rolls of film *cough cough* :rolleyes:

 

[P C Headland]

Your point of undoing Mister! I'm in total withdrawal after a 6.5 reading of cholesterol. I sinned. Badly. I pigged out on a long bicycle tour in March and again in April on gourmet cheese: blue vein, King Island Vintage Brie, Vintage Camembert, and finished up with a 9-day photographic orgy of waterfalls, rainforests and gourmet chocolate shops. Hell, imagine the hissy fits if cheese, cappuccinos, chocolates and whatnots went up 10-15%.

Still, I'm in withdrawal (no chocs, no cheese, skinny milk cuppas) and everything is coming down just nicely. :rolleyes:

You couldn't have drunk enough wine to balance out the cheese and chocolate. A balanced diet is important

 

[arigram]

... the time that I won't be able to afford to shoot film is fast approaching...

 

[benjiboy]

Prices go up, people buy less, Fuji goes under..?

Won't happen.

Why? Because Fuji makes the best film. They should charge a premium for it. I adore Reala and Acros and Astia. Heck, even a lil' Velvia or provia now and then.

I'm eagerly awaiting Fuji's counterpunch to Tmax 400's improvements...

--Wolfeye, unabashed Fuji lover--

I love Reala too, and all the Fuji Films I've tried, there's nothing we can do about it, it's the world economy going down the tubes, it won't stop me buying it, as the old saying says "When rape is inevitable lay back and enjoy it".

 

[Harry Lime]

It's oil and everything related to it.
Film is mostly made from petroleum based products and silver.
Both have seen a dramatic rise in price.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

Poisson, I feel your pain!

Me, I'm counting on good genes until the plug gets pulled.

Even with Welsh pony genes coursing through me (yes, really: mama smokes a pack and drinks 2 litres of sherry a day and she's 98), I reckon it will take more than 6-point-something to tip me over! My li'l sister came up with 6.9 and has been given only 6 weeks to bring hers down (I was given 4 months...).

I'd love a chockie. Just one (yes, well, "about one")... :rolleyes:

 

[m_liddell]

If this applies to the already stupidly priced acros quickloads I will be very disappointed. Kodak are discontinuing readyload so this may well totally price me out of LF.

Stitching files from my new D700 to get the same quality is starting to look appealing.

 

[Usagi]

Luckily I bough 80 sheets of Acros at June from Japan

But that rise of prices is not good. I already wonder how long they will support 4x5 format, as the Acros is currently only available B&W film at that size.

 

[hal9000]

Luckily I bought 800 sheets of Acros 4x5 from megaperls a few months ago. That should last me for a while.

 

[m_liddell]

Luckily I bought 800 sheets of Acros 4x5 from megaperls a few months ago. That should last me for a while.

At the current exchange rate it works out at £43 for 20 sheets. What are their shipping costs like and did the film make it through without x-ray damage?

Acros in quickload is getting harder and harder to find at any price in the UK. Robert White have a 'deal' on, 40 sheets for £100 ex VAT. Madness!

 

[hal9000]

Megaperls had a special offer for 20 boxes of 20 each. I had to pay customs on the package but it was still cheaper than here in stores in Germany. The film is just fine, no X-ray fogging from the mail.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

If this applies to the already stupidly priced acros quickloads I will be very disappointed. Kodak are discontinuing readyload so this may well totally price me out of LF.

Stitching files from my new D700 to get the same quality is starting to look appealing.

LF is gradually becoming the preserve of the elite and cashed up: I don't use it (but often long to, just for the experience); a friend producing fine art telle me it costs $14.00 to process a single 4x5 sheet of E6 where such format is actually accepted for processing; for the same cost, I process an RVP roll of 36 exposures. E6 is not as readily available in many shops, but quite easy to get in Pro labs, which is a saving grace.

Digital has no appeal to me so I will be with film in whatever format takes my fancy until its on its deathbed — or vice versa — and that aint at this time.

 

[amuderick]

Or he could process it himself for $0.50 a sheet. More likely, it is becoming the preserve of the do-it-all-yourselfer.

 

[Paul Verizzo]

The sorry excuse of a photo store here in Sarasota told me last fall that the days of E-6 processing there are limited. Mostly it's a chemical disposal issue coupled to low demand. Even their C-41 doesn't get much use. The film refrigerator looks like a photo version of Mother Hubbard's cupboard. The store is now a Wolf's, but for years was a locally owned very nice place.

So, other than students, hobbyists, and income oriented fine arts, what other market segments are using film based B&W? It's hard to believe that it was only 8 years ago that my little 2mp Olympus was a sensation wherever I took it. Now, more mp in a cell phone!

 

[Paul Verizzo]

Adding to what I just posted, we also have to keep in mind the age demographics in B&W. Many of us are, um, getting along and we've just done B&W all of our lives. But how many young people are getting into it? I understand that the demand for wet darkrooms at schools is surging, but if you add up all of the students doing that, figure only a small percentage will do so through their lives, that's not a lot of customers to split between Fuji-Kodak-Ilford-Kentmer-etc. etc.

When we started in photography there was no alternative to film. Now, a young person interested in making images has on one hand, a process that is time consuming, difficult to master, expensive in its initial costs, expensive to operate, and filled with disappointments on the yellow brick road. Over in the other corner is something that is instantaneous - which they expect - easy to correct, redo, costs little to get into, virtually nothing to operate, can share instantly anywhere on the earth, manipulatable in hundreds of ways in mere minutes for fun or creativity, doesn't need a dedicated work space, isn't smelly, and the technology is always getting better at lower cost.

If you were 22, where would you spend your money and efforts?