Shocked at how much bulk TMY-2 costs

[jtk]

film manufacture as well as film sales are business relics.

how many buggy whips do Walmart sell?

 

[Duceman]

One can still make money on the bulk roll...

Guess it needs repeating... from post #4.

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

 

[Craig]

So if you release the tension on the take up reel, the film comes off easily?

Depends on the camera, but generally it's easy. The tension has to be released somehow to rewind the film conventionally.

I've not had a problems loading the film, but I use Peterson tanks. You will still have the factory leader too.

 

[Radost]

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.

I get 18 rolls of hp5plus for $90 from unique photo.
$90 for 10 is too expansive.

 

[Radost]

If you buy 1000 feet vision it comes to $4.50 a roll.

 

[eli griggs]

I try to develop a roll of film every Saturday. The 12-exposure rolls of 120 film I shoot when I am in a medium format mood are just about right. 24 exposure, or worse yet 36 exposure rolls of 35mm film result in a lot of throw away shots to finish the roll. So I bulk load 12-exposure rolls of 35mm film. The cost per frame is much higher than for 36-exposure bulk loaded rolls because of all the unexposed heads and tails on the 40 30" rolls from a 100' roll but my film cost per week, even for Tri-X at today's prices, is much less than for 120 or longer rolls of 35mm.

Stop loading your precious film resources as throw away tounges and back space and start making up your exposures cassettes with used films in those positions, salvaged from your previously exposed films.

Some masking tape and a little time finding out how much of each of the three pieces are needed for particular cameras will hand tailor those 12-13 frame rolls, cut the tails just long enough for the reach to the end of the tail to good frames:where your picture taking ends and likewise, figure out how many wraps onto the leader wrench you need to just reach back enough for the good frames to be taped on and picture taking begins.

Throw in two good frames to the rolls, however many frames you roll so little to no partial exposures will spoil your first and last frame, and you're golden.

Exposures, even of simple dung pills, art too expensive to be wasted starting and stopping a roll of film.

IMO.

 

[Don Heisz]

If you tape a tongue onto a a roll of film for loading into a Leica III, there's a chance that masking tape will peel off as it goes through the film gate and get stuck in the shutter mechanism somewhere. It's particularly bad with a bottom-loader, because you'd have to take the camera apart to get it out. But it could easily end up stuck in any camera's focal plane shutter. It's best to only feed film through a camera.

 

[Duceman]

I get 18 rolls of hp5plus for $90 from unique photo.
$90 for 10 is too expansive.

Read the title of this thread.

 

[Radost]

Read the title of this thread.

Yea it is related.
If you really don’t have to shoot Kodak shoot Ilford.

 

[Agulliver]

film manufacture as well as film sales are business relics.

how many buggy whips do Walmart sell?

A lot fewer than the Fuji Superia 400 they're selling. That flies off the shelves, at least according to the Wal-Mart regional manager I spoke to in NW Arkansas last year.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

I have two, five-packs of 120 TMY-2 that I've been saving for a special occasion. I'm now saving up my Loonies and Toonies (can't save up pennies as we don't have them in our currency anymore...) for a 50 sheet box of 4x5 TMY-2... It's bloody expensive, but I can't live without this stuff...

 

[John Wiegerink]

I have two, five-packs of 120 TMY-2 that I've been saving for a special occasion. I'm now saving up my Loonies and Toonies (can't save up pennies as we don't have them in our currency anymore...) for a 50 sheet box of 4x5 TMY-2... It's bloody expensive, but I can't live without this stuff...

I've been living without it for some time now, but it ain't easy. It is still the best 400 speed B&W film made IMO. If I had a special project I would certainly break down and buy it, but for my leisure shooting I have cheaper choices that work just find in medium and large format. I think it has a clear advantage in 35mm. All that said, I find the pricing a little strange, but maybe there is a true justification.