What is going on with 35mm

[Mike Lopez]

I noticed a couple kids buying a vinyl album (33 1/3 rpm record) recently. It was a reissue of a Fleetwood Mac album. This was at Walmart or Target, IIRC it was well over $20. Maybe there's hope.

If it were Rumours it was worth every penny.

 

[Huss]

Target has a pretty big vinyl section. So does Urban Outfitters (popular young adult clothing/accessory store). Many musicians are releasing their latest albums on vinyl.
Jack White (once of White Stripes) is actually manufacturing the records themselves in a new facility he built.

The #1 album on Billboard right now is available on vinyl. As are most of them.

 

[MattKing]

I noticed a couple kids buying a vinyl album (33 1/3 rpm record) recently. It was a reissue of a Fleetwood Mac album. This was at Walmart or Target, IIRC it was well over $20. Maybe there's hope.

If it was Rumours, they don't know what they are missing
(I'm more of a Peter Green or Bob Welch Fleetwood Mac fan, then a Buckingham Nicks Fleetwood Mac fan)

 

[Moose22]

If it was Rumours, they don't know what they are missing
(I'm more of a Peter Green or Bob Welch Fleetwood Mac fan, then a Buckingham Nicks Fleetwood Mac fan)

Oh well.

 

[CMoore]

Oh well.

You clever so and so.!

 

[_T_]

Op here. I took the advice of this thread and went down to CVS and they had a neat little selection of film. Color only of course, 200 and 400 Fuji and surprisingly some of the new Polaroid stuff. Kind of cool.

I picked up a 3 pack of Superia xtra 400 35mm 36 frames for about $30 all told. Not bad in my opinion. $0.28 per shot makes sense to me.

 

[AgX]

Color only of course.

Here the big drugstore chains never gave up on b&w fillm, or not for long. Which I find surprising.

 

[Huss]

Op here. I took the advice of this thread and went down to CVS and they had a neat little selection of film. Color only of course, 200 and 400 Fuji and surprisingly some of the new Polaroid stuff. Kind of cool.

I picked up a 3 pack of Superia xtra 400 35mm 36 frames for about $30 all told. Not bad in my opinion. $0.28 per shot makes sense to me.

Nice! While the big name places are out of stock. People, look around, film is available!

 

[Don_ih]

Here the big drugstore chains never gave up on b&w fillm

I haven't seen b&w film in a non-camera store since last century. And, actually, since it was in Walmart, and they do sell cameras, I don't know that I've seen b&w film in drug stores. (Probably in the 70s - I remember the film display rack was huge in the local drug store when I was a kid.)

 

[AgX]

I don't know that I've seen b&w film in drug stores.

Here it was at the rather recent drugstore chains Agfa APS, now AgfaPhotp APS. But in the old days we also got family-run photo-drugstores, selling cameras and films and having a small lab.

 

[henryvk]

Always plenty of Agfa APX 100 at Germany's drugstore chain DM. Colour film, not so much.

 

[AgX]

A few weeks ago I called their offer erratic. Now I call it zero. But it maybe they give by purpose wrong informations at their website to deter commercial resellers.

 

[Roger Cole]

I haven't seen b&w film in a non-camera store since last century. And, actually, since it was in Walmart, and they do sell cameras, I don't know that I've seen b&w film in drug stores. (Probably in the 70s - I remember the film display rack was huge in the local drug store when I was a kid.)

I last saw B&W at Walmart in the early 1980s.

 

[MattKing]

Ilford film is on sale behind the photo counter at all the London Drugs in our area.
Of course, many of them have an in store photo lab as well.

 

[Arcadia4]

Boots chemists in uk still carry film albeit now only a reduced range in larger stores, Ilford hp5, fp4 and xp2 plus fuji 200/400 colour and instax. hp5 in 120 too.

 

[pentaxuser]

Ilford film is on sale behind the photo counter at all the London Drugs in our area.
Of course, many of them have an in store photo lab as well.

Sounds like b&w is largely a mainland Europe or U.K. and the "old" dominions film

"There'll always be a Mobberley
While there's a country lane
Wherever there's a cottage small
Beside a field of grain"

Is there a similar song for Foma in Czech?

pentaxuser

 

[CMoore]

I do not even think of film when i am in a store.
Guess i will have to take a look, i might be surprised.

My knowledge of any type of tech is way behind the times.
I found my Canon Sure-Sot P&S about 10-15 years ago.
I burned up the film that was remaining and took it to a Rite-Aid (drugstore) to be developed.
I did not even realize there was no more "One Hour Photo" being offered by the store any longer. I was a bit shocked. They said they send the film out for developing and it takes a bout one week.
I really had no idea that film had been "replaced" by digital.

 

[film_man]

I think I just bought the last 5-pack of Portra 160 in the UK.

 

[Dunga]

I haven’t shot 35 in about 6 years or so and my girlfriend just got a little point and shoot recently.

I was on B&H buying 4x5 portra 400 and I thought I’d use the free shipping it gave me to pick up a couple rolls for her.

I thought things were difficult for large format shooters but what’s going on with color negative 35 is something else. None of the go to have much of anything. And what is available is either very expensive or ridiculously expensive.

How long have things been like this?

It went up pretty fast, at least in Europe.

2018 - Kodak Ektar 120, 5 pack on Amazon - 26 EUR
2022 - Kodak Ektar 120, 5 pack on Amazon - 73 EUR

You can imagine that i shoot only black and white now

 

[Huss]

It went up pretty fast, at least in Europe.

2018 - Kodak Ektar 120, 5 pack on Amazon - 26 EUR
2022 - Kodak Ektar 120, 5 pack on Amazon - 73 EUR

You can imagine that i shoot only black and white now

forget AMZ. $55 in the US. AMZ is where you go if u want to see film prices in 2035.

 

[MattKing]

It went up pretty fast, at least in Europe.

2018 - Kodak Ektar 120, 5 pack on Amazon - 26 EUR
2022 - Kodak Ektar 120, 5 pack on Amazon - 73 EUR

You can imagine that i shoot only black and white now

forget AMZ. $55 in the US. AMZ is where you go if u want to see film prices in 2035.

Dunga is, of course, in Romania.
All this just highlights how much of the retail costs come from the distribution.
In the US, there is okay distribution.
Outside of the US, distribution is really inconsistent, multi-partied, inefficient and expensive.

 

[Dunga]

Dunga is, of course, in Romania.
All this just highlights how much of the retail costs come from the distribution.
In the US, there is okay distribution.
Outside of the US, distribution is really inconsistent, multi-partied, inefficient and expensive.

Yup, at these european prices i guess it will soon become cheaper for me to combine buying color film with a holiday either in the US or Japan )

 

[henryvk]

Here in Germany, 5 rolls of Ektar 120 are currently around EUR 61.

KODAK Ektar 100 Negativ-Farbfilm, Professional 120 Rollfilm 5 Stück – NORDFOTO Versand

www.nordfoto.de

France: EUR 62,99

Kodak - 5 films couleur Ektar 100 Professionnel 120

Kodak - 5 films couleur Ektar 100 Professionnel 120: achat, caractéristiques, accessoires, prix, avis

www.digixo.com

Spain: 66,85€

Kodak EKTAR 100 120 P-5 - Foto R3, film lab y fotografía analógica

Kodak Ektar 100 Professional en 120 es una película que incorpora la tecnología de las emulsiones KODAK VISION de cine profesional, de 100 ISO.

foto-r3.com

The cheapest I could find for the UK was around EUR 61 as well..

For the US the cheapest I could find was B&H at US$ 54,95 while the Amazon Kodak store sells it for US$ 59,48 which is pretty much the same in EUR at the current exchange rate.

 

[AgX]

For the US the cheapest I could find was B&H at US$ 54,95 while the Amazon Kodak store sells it for US$ 59,48 which is pretty much the same in EUR at the current exchange rate.

To compare prices from the USA you have to add to the US prices about 20% european VAT, which than makes the US Kodak-Amazon price even higher than the german retailer one...

 

[henryvk]

To compare prices from the USA you have to add to the US prices about 20% european VAT, which than makes the US Kodak-Amazon price even higher than the german retailer one...

Right, right...

*with a bullhorn* America: This is a ridiculous system, please abolish it!