Unacceptable Price Hike Of Fuji Provia

wyofilm

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The butthurt in this thread is hilarious - Fuji is gouging because I don't want to pay what they're asking!!! You think by whining Fuji is going to go "oh, we'll lower the price now?" If Fuji doesn't think making film is worth their time and money for what they're getting from it, prices are going up, or they're just axing it.

It's not apathy, we just have to deal with it. Shoot less, shoot something else, shoot digital - you keep touting how much you like color slide film because you find it the best medium for imaging - you really don't have much choice
 

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Other options to deal with it can include budget tighter or raise your own prices and marketing to cover the cost. [Or find a way to generate income from your photography if you're not already]

Prices on film aren't going to go down without production and overhead costs dropping. And that's rather unlikely to happen in a company like Fuji without some major restructuring...
 
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The prices are currently trending @ $50 for 3, and $80 for 5. Are you kidding me?

Doesn't surprise me, here in New Zealand it cost nearly $40US per roll for 35mm format.


You can reduce the overall cost by doing five things:
  1. Learn to develop color slide film. I learned this when I was in high school and was successful the first time

In some countries like mine we can't get slide film chemistry and B&H etc won't ship it outside the USA due to ORM-D.

I just shot my last roll of slides today. I have 11 rolls of 120 and 1 roll of 35mm. It will be for a while, I would occasionally shoot so I won't eliminate it. Thing thou is that I have collected my film up so I send to the USA from New Zealand cos it cost $20US per E6 here developed and no mounting for 35mm that has been long gone for 10yrs here. When they did have it they charged us 30c USD per slide mounted.
 

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