Is there anywhere (NA) to get 24 exp rolls for a reasonable price anymore?

[L_E_Miller]

I have a Nimslo 3D that I prefer to use 24 exp rolls in because I really don't take that many photos with it in a given outing.

Used to be you could get it for a reasonable price but now I'm seeing 8.99 for 24 exposure rolls vs 10.99 for 36 exposures for Kodak Gold

At that price point it kinda seems pointless to buy 24 exp rolls...

 

[BrianShaw]

I, also, tend to prefer the shorter 24 exposure to the 36 exposure roll. But what you are seeing is is the current situation and it's not likely to get any better. Everything cost more now... everything. Buy whatever you want, and shoot smarter!

 

[Paul Howell]

Seems to be the going rate, best bet, not sure if in the end will cost less is bulk loaded movie film, E2 processing so you will need to process at home or find a lab that processes E2. Ultrafine has 100 foot rolls of 250T for around a $107, then need to buy cassettes and loader, then load your 24 ex rolls. By the time you buy the film, E2 kit and cassettes not sure the final price per roll will be.

 

[btaylor]

Seems to be the going rate, best bet, not sure if in the end will cost less is bulk loaded movie film, E2 processing so you will need to process at home or find a lab that processes E2. Ultrafine has 100 foot rolls of 250T for around a $107, then need to buy cassettes and loader, then load your 24 ex rolls. By the time you buy the film, E2 kit and cassettes not sure the final price per roll will be.

Funny, and not entirely relevant- when I was shooting short ends about a decade ago it was $0.05 a foot- or $5 for 100’. I still have a freezer full of the stuff. I should buy an ECN2 kit and roll some.

 

[PeteGM]

If you happen to be okay with b&w, T-Max 100 is currently on sale for $5/roll at Adorama and B&H.

 

[L_E_Miller]

I, also, tend to prefer the shorter 24 exposure to the 36 exposure roll. But what you are seeing is is the current situation and it's not likely to get any better. Everything cost more now... everything. Buy whatever you want, and shoot smarter!

I've accepted that film cost more now. Just seems like a ripoff for the 24 rolls vs 36. Oh well

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Seems the one thing the virus didn't kill was greed. Appears to have made it stronger.

 

[Helge]

The cheap 24 exposure rolls, was likely all old frozen stock that was just being sold off before it went bad.
After that, there would have been none, and I mean none, left for you to shoot anyway.
So it’s a sign of some kind of health of the industry that you’re able to buy new high grade film.

 

[AgX]

I have a Nimslo 3D that I prefer to use 24 exp rolls in because I really don't take that many photos with it in a given outing.
Used to be you could get it for a reasonable price but now I'm seeing 8.99 for 24 exposure rolls vs 10.99 for 36 exposures for Kodak Gold.
At that price point it kinda seems pointless to buy 24 exp rolls...

You seem to expect the price per frame being the same at shorter rolls. This never was the case.

However if you only take about 24 exposures, then spending 2$ more for wasted film seems pointless to me.

I wonder what your idea behind this thread was.

 

[Nitroplait]

Don't know about NA, but where I live, 24 exposure color film was never a smart economic choice.
Film development cost the same pr roll, regardless of length and non-pro labs around here have charged a flat "per film" fee for prints for decades - 24, 27 or 36 prints, same price.
My local non-pro lab has stopped selling 24 exposure rolls, and the customers bringing in their 27 exposure disposable cameras are advised to buy those crappy "re-useable disposables" and load them with 36 exposure film instead.

 

[Cinema]

found some ultramax here at wal mart and walgreen. 3x24 for 18$ or so. around 6.50 each in the end. not great but look at big box stores. in store and online. you might be surprised what you find.

 

[gone]

Although I prefer to shoot 24 exp rolls, it doesn't make any sense financially. I stopped doing that many years ago. Freestyle has Foma and the house label Arista films (Foma again) around the $5 mark for 24 exp rolls, love the 100 and 400 films.

Just wait until you pay $20 for 1 roll of Delta 100 36 exp. That's what it cost me after the taxes and shipping. It was worth it, what an incredible film, and now I can get it w/ a stock order and lose the shipping charges. But still. $20 to shoot it, plus the cost of the developing chemicals, that's pretty crazy.

 

[mohmad khatab]

What is the problem ..
I heard that Agfa, Forte, ORWO and other companies were making rolls of 12 shots, 24 shots, 27 shots and 36 shots.
- What is the problem that C41 film reels, as it used to be, starting from five meters up to 30 meters are sold at fairly reasonable prices.
This step will be in the interest of the companies and not against their interest, because it will achieve more sales figures because it will be able to save packaging costs to some extent.
- What is the problem with some companies manufacturing reusable metal cassettes of high quality, as shown in the attached picture?

 

[Sirius Glass]

Now it looks like you just have to bulk load your own rolls. That means if you send them out for processing, you do not get the cassettes back and that just adds to the cost.

 

[Sal Santamaura]

...I wonder what your idea behind this thread was.

The same thing that's behind all the other numerous threads complaining about prices: a propensity to complain about prices.

What's missed in this thread is that the actual film represents a much smaller portion of manufacturing cost for either 24 or 36 exposure roll than the cassette does. It makes little difference how long the film is when HARMAN and Kodak sink most of their expense into the metal, plastic, felt and adhesive that contain it.

Whenever a 35mm film I use is available in 24 exposure rolls, that's what I purchase. It's already too long and requires "burning up" more frames than my shooting style would otherwise expose. In the past, before 20 exposure rolls were replaced by 24s, I only bought 20s. In an ideal world, my most used 35mm film -- TMY-2 -- would be offered in 12 exposure cassettes. Even if priced just a dollar less than the 24 exposure version, it would be a bargain.

 

[Donald Qualls]

if you send them out for processing, you do not get the cassettes back and that just adds to the cost.

If you have a local lab, they'll often let you have all the used cassettes (each with most of an inch of film sticking out) that you want to cart away, for free. They recycle them, but I don't know that they get anything for them.

Even if these can't be opened up, lots of folks bulk load by taping the new film to the stub the mini-lab operators leave. Free cassettes, and you won't care if you get them back. DO NOT, however, take ECN-2 film with remjet to a lab that doesn't know what it is. They will not be happy with you...

 

[Sirius Glass]

If you have a local lab, they'll often let you have all the used cassettes (each with most of an inch of film sticking out) that you want to cart away, for free. They recycle them, but I don't know that they get anything for them.

Even if these can't be opened up, lots of folks bulk load by taping the new film to the stub the mini-lab operators leave. Free cassettes, and you won't care if you get them back. DO NOT, however, take ECN-2 film with remjet to a lab that doesn't know what it is. They will not be happy with you...

Excellent point. Thank you.

 

[wjlapier]

I’d look at Amazon Japan. Years back I did some comparison between bhphoto, freestyle, and Amazon Japan. Price per frame was cheaper with Amazon Japan. I’ve found expired rolls on eBay cheap—just gotta keep checking. Drugstores on their clearance shelf, and finally, thrift stores.

 

[mohmad khatab]

Now it looks like you just have to bulk load your own rolls. That means if you send them out for processing, you do not get the cassettes back and that just adds to the cost.

And why do you suppose that he will send the coils for processing and development? Perhaps you are a wealthy man and have the financial ability to send your films to film development laboratories while sitting at home.

Why don't you assume that he will develop these rolls with his own hands, and then he will be able to save some money (as the ancient amateurs did in the old time)
- My great uncle told me, that the amateur photographer was not recognized as an amateur photographer in Egypt (by the Photographic Society) unless he could develop his films with his own hands.
- The prices of photochemistry are declining and there are new companies that have begun to enter the production of photochemistry, which were companies that did not exist before, and this in turn will lead to an increase in competitiveness and then will make the price of photochemistry within the reach of the amateur photographer, but also there are groups Ultra-small half-liter photochemistry, according to which the amateur photographer can be able to develop his films with his own hands at very, very acceptable prices and can save the cost of optical laboratories

- I can add one more thing to that,,,,, Why don't you assume that an amateur photographer, like me, can prepare photochemistry from scratch and develop his films with his own hands. Surely in that case you cannot talk about the price of cassettes?
It will definitely save a lot of money (development cost) + photochemistry cost + bulk film cost will be cheaper,
All this will allow the amateur photographer to take more photos comfortably and thus he will be able to gain more cumulative photographic experience and thus he can build up his skills and produce high-end photographic works (why not)?

 

[Huss]

Now it looks like you just have to bulk load your own rolls. ..

Bulk loading 24 exp rolls smells oxymorony to me.

 

[mohmad khatab]

The same thing that's behind all the other numerous threads complaining about prices: a propensity to complain about prices.

What's missed in this thread is that the actual film represents a much smaller portion of manufacturing cost for either 24 or 36 exposure roll than the cassette does. It makes little difference how long the film is when HARMAN and Kodak sink most of their expense into the metal, plastic, felt and adhesive that contain it.

Whenever a 35mm film I use is available in 24 exposure rolls, that's what I purchase. It's already too long and requires "burning up" more frames than my shooting style would otherwise expose. In the past, before 20 exposure rolls were replaced by 24s, I only bought 20s. In an ideal world, my most used 35mm film -- TMY-2 -- would be offered in 12 exposure cassettes. Even if priced just a dollar less than the 24 exposure version, it would be a bargain.

My brother, you are dealing with the matter very superficially.
This reel is the production of an old Yugoslav company called Fotokimka, the reel is only five meters,, There were other reels longer than five metres,, I don't remember very well what lengths were offered for sale in those old times, but that reel was sent to me by someone Friends from Serbia and it has a five-meter film tape..
The blank cassette is produced by the Hungarian company Forte..
I can only fill in a 12-shot tape (if I have a specific goal to shoot flowers for example)
And after a few weeks I will be packing the same cassette with tape long enough to take 12 more shots at the seaside.
Did the Yugoslav company lose anything when selling reels that way?

 

[pbromaghin]

Seems to be the going rate, best bet, not sure if in the end will cost less is bulk loaded movie film, E2 processing so you will need to process at home or find a lab that processes E2. Ultrafine has 100 foot rolls of 250T for around a $107, then need to buy cassettes and loader, then load your 24 ex rolls. By the time you buy the film, E2 kit and cassettes not sure the final price per roll will be.

I would add that they don't just carry the tungsten versions, but also have daylight balanced 250D and 50D. This is about the cheapest way there is to shoot color. Or rather, the only cheap way. By rolling your own and home processing with an ECN2 kit, it's $4-5 for film and $4 for processing.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

Seems the one thing the virus didn't kill was greed. Appears to have made it stronger.

There is enough money to feed the poor but not enough to satisfy the greed of the rich!

 

[L_E_Miller]

found some ultramax here at wal mart and walgreen. 3x24 for 18$ or so. around 6.50 each in the end. not great but look at big box stores. in store and online. you might be surprised what you find.

My local Walgreens used to have Ultramax 3 packs 24 XP for 21 dollars and I was pretty happy with it but I took a pack up to the counter last week and it came up as 27.99 or something.

I went into a Rite Aid the other day and they wanted 40.00 for a 3 pack of Fuji 400 36XP...

 

[L_E_Miller]

I wonder what your idea behind this thread was.

Ideally to see if anyone still had 24 exposure rolls in stock at the old prices.