Source for 6.5x9 cm FP4?

[Adrian Bacon]

Well, at the outrageous price that is above 4x5 what sense does it make to even bother? It's not that hard to make a jig and trim own sheets as needed form whatever 4x5 film is available. And Adox's CHS 100 II is available off the shelf and I dare to say much better than FP4+ to boot.

I revived this thread after I got into this format and Ilford claiming as available. It would not kill them to tell the truth on the site.

I don't doubt it's readily available if you're buying it from the right place, but it's not exactly a common format, so it's not reasonable to expect it to be in stock everywhere. Not all retailers carry sheet film in any format, much less that one. Heck, it's pretty difficult to walk into a retailer and find 24 exposure 35mm film. That typically is only available online from places like BH, Adorama, and Freestyle. Film is expensive enough that most retailers only carry what they can reasonably expect to move in a quarter.

 

[Deleted member 88956]

I don't doubt it's readily available if you're buying it from the right place, but it's not exactly a common format, so it's not reasonable to expect it to be in stock everywhere. Not all retailers carry sheet film in any format, much less that one. Heck, it's pretty difficult to walk into a retailer and find 24 exposure 35mm film. That typically is only available online from places like BH, Adorama, and Freestyle. Film is expensive enough that most retailers only carry what they can reasonably expect to move in a quarter.

There is only ONE beef I have with Ilford: they state film is AVAILABLE. Truth is IT IS NOT. ULF is NOT equal to available and they could easily state that on FP4+ page and they chose to ignore that simple fact, If it does not pay to make it in that size, don't make it. Charging through ULF more than double vs. 4x5 size is simply criminal. So Adox it is for new film, any other film is either older expired one or trimmed by own means. By now I'm fine with this solution.

 

[otto.f]

I'm very surprised to hear that because I have printed hundreds of sheets of ADOX paper in the last 6 years. It's currently not available in most sized, and I'm eagerly waiting the re-arrival of MCC from the new run after they fully ship Polywarmtone (which I will also buy). I've also shot quite a lot of Silvermax and had no quality issues at all.

Yes the trigger was a box of 50 fiberbased 50x60cm paper. This was two years ago. But this is history now, as said.