Some great news. Fuji to resume color film manufacturing.

Ironically, color film and color printing paper is getting more affordable than black and white photography, given the huge price increases in things like fiber-based black and white paper and museum mounting board. Everybody screams about the dramatically rising cost of film, including me; but what about paper too, and the cumulative boot on our necks? I'll be completely out of both cold tone and warm tone paper within a week, but I can afford to replenish only one at the moment, if I can even find my preference in stock anywhere right now! So maybe its back to color printing again for awhile, or else drymounting, if the summer stays cold here, like it generally does at least through July. I'm wearing a coat at the moment. Folks in the Texas heatwave will be envious of that, where it's raining sweat rather than Pacific ocean mist.

Film cost is less an issue for me. I have plenty of 4X5 and 8x10 sheet film stashed in the freezer, both color and black and white. 120 film is quite affordable by comparison, unless one is a machine gunner. But we need machine gunners for sake of manufacturing incentive.

mshchem said:

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What kind of film is that in the jar with the blue lid?

Sirius Glass said:

[large format shooters] Whom are known not to be film wasters.

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Depends on how you measure. In terms of film area and chemical volume, they are!

1kgcoffee said:

It would be nice to see Reala brought back. Never got the chance to shoot it. But take what we can get for now.

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Reala was my default color film back before I switched to digital circa 2009. I was buying it 10 rolls at a time from B&H for $2.59/roll (it's still in my order history).

Chris

mshchem said:

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You win. You have more stored film than I do.

armadsen said:

What kind of film is that in the jar with the blue lid?

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About 5 years back a couple of Deer mice arrived from the field across the creek. Field mice aren't as disgusting as a house mouse but it was us or them.

Steven - in terms of the available lumens and detail in front of a camera, large format shooters are the least wasteful. 35mm film captures only 2% of what 8X10 does, and therefore throws away the other 98%. Of course nowadays people take about sixty shots atop a panning device, then spend the next six weeks splicing them together and trying to blend any anomalies due to wind or shifts in lighting, and call it technological progress.