Ilford Color Negative Film

tykos

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on that same shop they have portra 160 and ektar @ 7cents/frame cheaper and portra 400 at the same price. No other C41 color availability.

Other oddball films are also not really competing with lower prices. I guess there is enough people that like variety and don't really care about predictability in their results.

some people look for impredictability. I don't, but...

anyway, i shared that because it's quite odd: never found that product anywhere on other websites or on the ilford/harman ones, quite strange
 

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yeah, just don't take everything literally, i've said "quite rare" on the previous reply.
Personally i'd have to struggle to find a commercial lab near me that prints ra4 with an enlarger. In our darkroom we have color heads, but no processor (hence the "pain" part of my reply).
I know lots of people are dabbling with it and i don't know the numbers, but can we agree on the fact that ra4 printers (commercial or amateur) are a small fraction of the bw ones?
[disclaimer: i shoot very little color film, and i'd like to have some of it ra4 printed. but the lab i knew stopped recently, i'd have to find another one but it's difficult]
 

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can we agree on the fact that ra4 printers (commercial or amateur) are a small fraction of the bw ones?

Absolutely. And those are a fraction of the people that (at least occasionally) have something printed digitally. And those yet again are only a fraction of the people who photograph and hence could at some point decide to print something. There's a lot to be gained, still. Or should I say, regained?
 
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