Maybe, or maybe they'd sell more. I often want a higher speed film just for casual photography or in a point and shoot, and I can't justify paying Portra 800 prices for that. So I never buy it, but I would buy a cheaper 800 speed consumer level film.
If anyone can offer a decent consumer 800 ISO film for that kind of price, I'll be all over it.Hadn't seen that, but at least where I am in the US the pricing doesn't make sense. Lomo 800 for $19.30/roll, santacolor 800 for $21, while Portra 800 is available for $17 from FPP.
If Eastman Kodak could offer a consumer 800 iso film for closer to $12-13, that'd be a more interesting proposition
Wonderful! This aligns with some of our predictions earlier in this thread, that EK will be taking over film distribution for North America.
Wonderful! This aligns with some of our predictions earlier in this thread, that EK will be taking over film distribution for North America.
Hopefully this allows them to get creative and start bringing back some dead films. I want some Panatomic-X and an E6 Kodachrome. Don't care about authenticity, just for fun.
If EK starts resurrecting old films again, my money's on Plus-X being first. Plus-X fills a medium-speed niche that's currently empty in Kodak's traditional-grain films. While a return of Panatomic-X would be sweet, it's niche of extremely low grain is filled by T-Max.
- TMax 100 runs rings round Panatomic-X.
If EK starts resurrecting old films again, my money's on Plus-X being first. Plus-X fills a medium-speed niche that's currently empty in Kodak's traditional-grain films. While a return of Panatomic-X would be sweet, it's niche of extremely low grain is filled by T-Max.
125PX (unless they decide to do TXP in rollfilm) is realistically the only other BW emulsion Kodak could relatively easily bring back, as it was reformulated for B38. That reformulation (and it being therefore potentially in the emulsion making system) is the key to anything being even theoretically revivable. All the other E-6 films would depend on how much they could technology share with the revived Ektachrome's revised couplers.
Some people also need to get real about the fact that Panatomic-X wasn't much better than PX in the 1980's, never mind the 2000s 125PX - TMax 100 runs rings round Panatomic-X.
That said, it would be interesting to see where combining the B38 Plus-X emulsion & the relevant bits of sensitising knowledge that went into TMax 400 would end up.
Some people also need to get real about the fact that Panatomic-X wasn't much better than PX in the 1980's, never mind the 2000s 125PX - TMax 100 runs rings round Panatomic-X.
Something interesting is happening - I would really like to know what's going on behind the scenes
I find it a bit interesting that the stocks via EK are the same price as they are via Alaris. I would have assumed ditching a middle man would bring down cost some. There does seem to be some difference with Gold, but Ektar is about $15 for a roll of 36 and that's the same as what Alaris is selling it for.
My hope for some cost control when it comes to color sheet film is dimmed. $30 a sheet is bananas. I know it's not the same base, and I know the production is lower, but it will never make sense to me that the same physical amount of film is double the price of the 35mm version, which has it's own packaging and canning costs associated with it. In 2005/6, it was SO much cheaper. A box of 8x10 Portra VC or NC was about $80. In inflation adjusted terms we're talking about $130. But somehow Portra 400 in 8x10 is $329 and 160 is like $280. I even read that Alec Soth is having a hard time justifying 8x10 color with these prices.
Luckily for me personally my work has moved almost entirely to B&W, but maybe I'd be shooting more color neg it if was viable in larger formats.
Someone needs to get paid to do distribution. If EK didn't have sufficient in-house distribution capability then they probably needed to build or subcontract such a capability, both of which costs money. Are we certain that film is being sold "directly" rather than through the existing distributors? Seems to me that there is often a middle-man or two...I find it a bit interesting that the stocks via EK are the same price as they are via Alaris. I would have assumed ditching a middle man would bring down cost some.
TANSTAFL.
WDYUTSA ?
WDYUTSA ?
If Eastnan eliminates Alaris as their sole distributor with their high markups, Eastman can hire among dozens of film distributors at much lower mark ups for distribution. There's no reason for Eastman to actually do the distribution themselves. At the end of the day, that will mean lower prices around the world for Kodak film.I expect the world outside the USA will pay more for Kodak films and/or will have even worse availability if Eastman Kodak and its demand for higher returns on investment are forded to replace the international distribution infrastructure that Kodak Alaris has been providing.
The same might apply within the USA.
Eastman Kodak is expensive to run, and TANSTAFL.
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