Me too. I shoot less color than before. Expensive but I like the results. More selective than I’ve ever been in what I shoot. How much I shoot, and where I buy (film and processing).This is the reason I've stopping shooting color film, at $10 a roll, $10 for processing, and $20 to $30 for prints, or buy C41 and R4 and R4 paper if you can find it, still way to expensive per roll. I have 3 or 4 rolls of 35mm color and 2 rolls of 120 in the freezer, once they are gone they are gone, just black and white for me.
Agree 100%.Hmmm. Deleted? Seriously?? But fair enough.
Without the additional commentary… if the price isn’t right then shop elsewhere or don’t buy the product. It’s as easy as that.
That should be possible cheaper. In a small country like the Netherlands we pay €3, €3,50 for E6.$10 for processing
This is the reason I've stopping shooting color film, at $10 a roll, $10 for processing, and $20 to $30 for prints, or buy C41 and R4 and R4 paper if you can find it, still way to expensive per roll. I have 3 or 4 rolls of 35mm color and 2 rolls of 120 in the freezer, once they are gone they are gone, just black and white for me.
That should be possible cheaper. In a small country like the Netherlands we pay €3, €3,50 for E6.
Maybe we are just lucky then. In each town of let's say 10.000/15.000 inhabitants there is a store of a chain that works together with Fujifilm. I dropped one of monday it was ready today. Paid €7 for 2 rolls of 120 slide film.Cheapest I've found it in the lower 48 is Dwayne's out of Kansas. $6 per roll plus the ride there and back. There are many other labs that will do it for a few dollars more. But $10 per roll, once tax/shipping is taken into account, is probably close to average around these parts.
This all sounds wonderful to me. £60 for 5 rolls of Portra seems a bit breathtaking, not really though. It sounds like smaller shops can still thrive in the UK and Europe. A level tax rate helps. In the US the big places have crushed most of the local shops.My local lab, to which I can walk from home if I feel like a 25 minute stroll, is £4 flat fee for C41 and E6 in 110, 135, 120, 127 formats process and scan. Prints cost another £4 but the caveat is that they're digital prints. Still very good (Agfa dLab which seems to be one of the best, operated by a lady who's been processing film since the C22 days). I'm always free to take those negatives and do higher resolution, more careful scans at home (though she does manual scanning on a flat bed at little extra cost too)....or get them optically printed elsewhere. £4 for the processing even if you don't want the scanning seems pretty good. I know of other labs in the UK offering similar for £6 to £8. All taxes included which means our famous 20% VAT is included.
As for the cost of Gold in 120....all rather hypothetical this side of the pond as no retailer actually has any yet. But I've seen it offered at £38 for a 5-pack as a pre-order with Portra at the same retailer £60. Another anticipates £8.50 or £9 per roll once they have it in stock but is not committing until then. I've also seen these pre-orders not materialise in the past (eg Ektachrome) so I shall hold fire until someone actually has it in stock. Is it expensive? I'd ask a different set of questions. Is it worth it? and do I really think that Kodak could bring it to me any cheaper? THe answer to the first question is "probably"....and to the second "probably not". The days of £2 rolls of film are long gone. Sad but true.
C41 and R4 chemistry and paper, $27. + $60 + $60 for paper, maybe if I shoot a lot more color it could be a savings, as I shoot over 90% black and white, the chemistry goes bad before I shoot enough rolls.
I'd be curious at that too. He passed in Feb 2020, but he may of had some influence even before that. I understand, according to Nico, that they were working on this film a long time, and halted progression for a short period. Then resumed, did beta tests Aug last year, and now we have the film today.Wondering if R Mowrey had any ifluence on the deicision to bring it back?
I'd be curious at that too. He passed in Feb 2020, but he may of had some influence even before that. I understand, according to Nico, that they were working on this film a long time, and halted progression for a short period. Then resumed, did beta tests Aug last year, and now we have the film today.
Miss Ron. He was a wealth of knowledge unmatched. He also loved the space program, which I do as well. He gave me some sheets of his 4x5 Super XX film, just so I could try it out. I always remembered his generosity. We did have some chats behind the scenes as well.
I find it strange that they still mention the Wratten filters although they don't produce them anymore.Revised New Tech Pub from Kodak.
I find it strange that they still mention the Wratten filters although they don't produce them anymore.
I find it strange that they still mention the Wratten filters although they don't produce them anymore.
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