Fujichrome T64 discontinued?

[perkeleellinen]

Does anyone use tungsten in daylight with a filter?

2F/2F mentioned doing this, above.

I've found the 64ASA flavours too slow for the sort of indoor stuff I like. 320T, now that was a great film and I have a little stock of it. I often wondered if I could push 64T or T64 up to around 250ASA. Did anyone ever try Scotch 640T?

 

[B&Wpositive]

What ever came of the processing issues people were having with this film? I've heard a lot of negativity in the past:

http://photo.net/large-format-photography-forum/00Kqm5

 

[jun]

Day before yesterday I went to Fujifilm Square mainly for seeing and actually touching the new GF670 camera that they are going to release soon (as you know, the release of this camera was postponed to end of April due to overwhelming numbers of pre-order that they didn’t expect, which I think it is true that they had large amounts of orders, since I did notice when I discussed with the popular camera shop in Japan, I have informed from the shop that they already had problems with too much pre-orders so the release will be postponed to April/May “BEFORE” the Fujifilm official announcement … I won’t discuss about GF670 any more in this thread).

Note that Fujifilm Square is located at the Headquarters of Fujifilm (Roppongi, Tokyo).

They displayed T64 in their showroom so I asked about T64.

They said that “there should be no announcement from us” to discontinue T64.

Then I asked, “Are you sill making it?”…“Yes”

Well I see that expiation date for the T64 stock in Yodobashi camera isn’t that different than of the other Fuji reversal film stocks in the same store.

Sometimes I see rumor about discontinuation of film products in the net.
One rumor that I saw in the net (in Japanese, a year ago or so) was the very popular reversal film (far more popular than the T64) actually was in the state of danger of discontinuance in the past.

If this really happened, this had be a real shock for us for sure.

Well anyone can speculate, even I can speculate why that kind of rumor is coming out, but that is merely a speculation.

I think if Fujiflim really made a “final decision as a company” to discontinue T64, which is the Fujifilm product and made by Fuji, Fujifilm will “officially” announce to discontinue.

Also as you may notice, Fuji once has officially announced to discontinued Single 8 movie color film (R25N and RT200N).
Storm of opposition came to Fuji, letting to continue to make the film and maintain the lab to process that film (with some increase in price).
I still see that film in Yodobashi.

PS:
Unfortunately the DNP CENTURIA FILM (Color Negative, Kodak OEM) is discontinued, and you can see it discontinued in DNP fotolusio web site.
Also I didn’t see any DNP CENTURIA FILM in Yodobashi camera in Shinjuku any more.

 

[nickandre]

Making it may refer to "coated miles of it today" or "packaging the last few yards of coated film." I would bet the latter. Either way, stocks are probably going to get scarce. People will stock up. I debated stocking up and figured I'll shoot the roll I have now and say oh well. It's not Kodachrome 25 after all. There is a "replacement."

 

[jun]

Making it may refer to "coated miles of it today" or "packaging the last few yards of coated film."

Yes, that is true.
Time will tell.

 

[Shangheye]

Well if it is true, I am pissed...I mean REALLY pissed! I only recently discovered this film as my favourite way to cross process in daylight. Rate at EI32 and push develop at EI125. I had noticed that the fridge at my local shop was empty of T64 at 120 size and only one roll of 35mm. When I asked them if it was being discontinued, the comment was, not as far as they knew, but that the distributor was having difficulty getting it. Given that these guys gave me the heads up on the polaroid PN55 discontinuation 6 weeks ahead of the announcement, I trust them...so here is hoping. K