Shocked at how much bulk TMY-2 costs

DREW WILEY

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Let's see, the last really good lifetime-quality commercial enlarger cost me just the gas expense to pick it up. But given its age, let's say someone paid $5,000 dollars for it, plus another $2000 to ship it to another country (yeah, despite all the generic analysis here, other countries still exist, and are not themselves 99.9% extinct yet). And not everyone, in every part of the earth, can afford to drop several hundred thousand dollars into a big new laser exposure system with all the scanning bells and whistles and dedicated processing lines. Despite the rumors, pictures and ad displays also occur elsewhere on earth, and are not yet entirely relegated to outer cyberspace like crypto currency and the ashes of Timothy Leary. But for sake of argument, let's say that 99.9 % of human beings have switched to digital eyeballs seeing only fictional content, and only the remaining 00.1% still have real optical vision using eyes with lenses. Heck, that still amounts about 8 million people capable of appreciating what an optically enlarged image looks like, and who are potentially even capable of operating one. Even I can.
 
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Duceman

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I can get 10 rolls of 36-exposure TMY-2 for $90 through Film Supply Club. Savings (for me) is $0.67/roll over individual cassettes.

Just checked, and what was $90 above from a few months ago is now $110 for 10 rolls.
 
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