I feel like I just fell through a hole in space-time

JimDun said:
Just googled for colour negative film, expecting online specialist hobby shops and got this as the first result in the 'ads' at the top:

Fujifilm Colour 200 36 Exposure Box - Boots

Buy Fujifilm Colour 200 36 Exposure Box collect Advantage Card Points for every £1 you spend.
www.boots.com www.boots.com

So Boots still sell film???!
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They'll be selling records next.....:LOL:
 
Plenty of film available fortunately, now the kids have rediscovered "analogue photography". I agree though, the Boots ad is a throwback.
 
Glad you're having a good if surprise filled day Jim :D Enjoy the film :D
 
M, if not most Boots shops sell film. MainlyIlford black and white: FP4, HP5 and XP2 in 135, and HP5 in 120. And the odd Fuji colour film too, occasionally. Very good for when you need just one, even though they're a bit expensive (£7.99?), it avoids postage costs.
 
ChrisR said:
M, if not most Boots shops sell film. MainlyIlford black and white: FP4, HP5 and XP2 in 135, and HP5 in 120. And the odd Fuji colour film too, occasionally. Very good for when you need just one, even though they're a bit expensive (£7.99?), it avoids postage costs.
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It seems to depend on the individual store. In my local one, I popped in recently just thinking they'd have something (hopefully some FP4+ etc) as I'd finally finished a roll and it was a nice day out. Turns out they've ripped out the entire photo department and stuck 3 do it yourself printing kisoks in its place. No film or anything photography related in sight, except for an empty shelf that was supposed to have disposable cameras on it.
 
It's the "stock coming soon" bit. That could be next week, or next year the rate it's going.
 
s162216 said:
It seems to depend on the individual store. In my local one, I popped in recently just thinking they'd have something (hopefully some FP4+ etc) as I'd finally finished a roll and it was a nice day out. Turns out they've ripped out the entire photo department and stuck 3 do it yourself printing kisoks in its place. No film or anything photography related in sight, except for an empty shelf that was supposed to have disposable cameras on it.
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Yeah, it's pretty hit and miss on whether Boots will have any film these days. If you're lucky there will be some slightly expensive Ilford stuff, and maybe a bit of Fuji, but generally it's some disposables (often no-brand makes) of nothing at all.
 
Excellent. Enjoy :D

PS.
I used to keep my loose change in old plastic film canisters. I haven't used film for decades but I still have a few empty ones in a drawer.
 
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I was at the local retail park so after seeing this thread popped into the medium sized Boots. There was a film section - all the unbranded single use cameras were out of stock but there were lots of a Harman/Ilford version. Didn't look too closely but there where 7 or 8 different varieties of Ilford Film.

£18.98 later I left with their remaining C41 stock (400 was £9.99).
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I've finally accepted that I'm not going to get consumer 200 film at £2.50 ever again!
 
auntiemaryscanary said:
I was at the local retail park so after seeing this thread popped into the medium sized Boots. There was a film section - all the unbranded single use cameras were out of stock but there were lots of a Harman/Ilford version. Didn't look too closely but there where 7 or 8 different varieties of Ilford Film.

£18.98 later I left with their remaining C41 stock (400 was £9.99).
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I've finally accepted that I'm not going to get consumer 200 film at £2.50 ever again!
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Oh for Poundland Vista 200, £1 for 24 shots of proper Fuji C200! Little did we know how good we have it!

Remember https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/agfa-vista-challenge.442485/ ?
 
Any the days of sending a roll to get developed and printed and receiving a free roll with your negs and prints.
 
You used to be able to pay a bit more for 1 hour development & printing from some photo places.

We used to do that with holiday snaps so we could look at them while we were still there. Happy days.
 
The last time I popped in to Colourstream in Brighton to get a film developed (I use them for C41) they still offered a rapid turn round. Admittedly, this was before 2020, probably 2019. I don't really use colour film, hence the longish time ago. It would have been about the hour I think.
 
JimDun said:
We used to do that with holiday snaps so we could look at them while we were still there.
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Most of my "family films" seem to have a Christmas Tree on each end of the roll, and a few pictures of people shivering in a deck-chair on a beach in Scarborough in the middle.
 
I have given up trying to buy film in-store and now have to buy my B&W film online from Analogue Wonderland, Wex, or Parallax Photographic Coop. They sell colour too (when in stock) but colour film prices are unbelievable (I still have some Vista left from my last bulk purchase from Poundland).
 
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