Could be that Kodak is no longer selling it to them for rebranding.
kodak was dumping inventory at cost, their loss is our gain.
keep in mind that at that price 20 rolls is equal in cost, and yield to a 100 foot roll and you get the stuff pre-rolled for free. Great deal. Will have to order another 20 or so.
All of the Arista products come-and-go depending on availability of supply. This news is not a big surprise to me. What it means about the future of Tri-X is anyones guess right now.
Depending on who (if anyone) buys the Kodak film distribution business, we might see even more private labeling and store brands of Kodak film.
Fujifilm seems to have embraced this strategy with its consumer color films.
I hope we see the arrival of boutique films, made on occasion. Special runs of Panatomic-X or Verichrome Pan, for example. The film community would eat that stuff up.
Remember Ilford's bankruptcy/receivership business only a few years ago? They withdrew all third party private label product branding when they re-formed the company.
Fujifilm seems to have embraced this [private labelling] strategy with its consumer color films.
However .....
Ilford is happy to do custom manufacture of private label products that are designed to meet customers' requirements.
So Ilford (or maybe in the future Kodak or Fuji or Agfa) could be hired to produce Freestyle's in-house designed house brand film for them.
So can we get together and have them make some more paper and chemistry to print chromes again?
Also, anyone know if Kodak still has the capability to produce Verichrome? if there were a large special order?
Ilford doesn't do colour.
And there have been an awful lot of equipment and constituent chemistry changes since Verichrome was made.
There has even been a lot of equipment and constituent chemistry changes since Verichrome Pan was made.
Even for current products, Kodak has very large minimum quantity requirements for special orders (such as unusual sizes).
Ilford is two parts, related only by name. Harman, that operates Ilford Photo and Kentmere. Then there's a company (in Switzerland I think) that makes inkjet paper. The 'other' Ilford used to make Ilfochrome paper and chemistry, up until about half a year ago.
Agreed - but as far as I know the only Ilford that does custom coating is the black-and-white Ilford.
Well, according to the link, bulk 400 ISO is also gone.
Only 36/24 exp left.
This is a little weird, as I have Tri-X dated well into the 2014's, but it may be that the axing of Arista premium is due to a transitional phase, until the film division has been sold/separated from the rest of Kodak.
I know that a lot of people use the Arista stuff, so I thought it might be interesting.
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