Kodak prices up again!

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According to this article it looks like Kodak are upping prices again, this time by 20%
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Kodak Alaris announces ‘significant’ price increases for January 2022

Kodak Alaris has announced a “significant” price increase affecting all its film products in January 2022. Kosmo Foto was shown examples of new pricing from one UK distributor on Thursday (28 Octob…
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Feels like they are handing out nails for their own coffin.

I can understand it if they are suffering shortages and inflation is through the roof at the moment but 20% is one hell of an increase.

Those few rolls of Kodak Ultramax I have are gaining in value
 
They need to be careful not to price themselves out of the market
 
I have just two rolls of 120 Portra left and I now agonise over whether possible use is going to be “special” enough to justify using it up.

I have enough Vision cine film to last probably two-three years - after that I think I’ll only b shooting film in black and white.
 
Pity. It's only really Kodak, as far as I can see, that produce consumer orientated films at a reasonable price. It's either that or a price hike for Fuji and the expensive boutique films.
 
Plain Nev said:
Pity. It's only really Kodak, as far as I can see, that produce consumer orientated films at a reasonable price. It's either that or a price hike for Fuji and the expensive boutique films.
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For B&W, of course, there's Ilford (still sold by Boots, which I suppose makes it officially consumer orientated!).

There can't be many companies still making C41, let alone E6 - as far as I can tell, just Kodak, Fuji, and InovisCoat/FilmoTec. Everyone else is just rebadging what these three make, or selling old, discontinued emulsions. Fuji don't seem to have much of a commitment to non-instant films, and it's rumoured their increasingly expensive products like Superia (a consumer film at what is now approaching a premium price) are the just the remainder of old production from dwindling stocks in cold storage. The InovisCoat/FilmoTec (ORWO) merger brings together the long-sundered West and East German inheritors of Agfa's film business. Apparently, InovisCoat makes some colour film for LOMO, and there's talk of new ORWO-branded colour stock in the future.

That leaves Kodak, which is at least still producing film and even introducing new emulsions, though if already expensive films like Portra and Ektar are getting a 20% price hike, I don't know how often I'll be springing for them. I suppose if Superia is killed I can try UltraMax. I've no idea what ColorPlus and Gold are like today, and I've only just noticed that Pro Image 100 exists, which seems to sell for consumer prices despite the name - has anyone tried that one?
 
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I've a couple of rolls of Pro Image to try. I think it's had generally good reviews. Although, it's not a new film by any means. It's been available in Asia and South America for a long time. It is supposedly quite robust and doesn't need elaborate storage methods.
 
There's also Film Ferrania. It's only been 7 years since I backed their Kickstarter campaign and just over a year and a quarter since their last update, I'm sure they'll start distributing rolls of film any day now. :tumbleweed:
 
Some chap on YouTube believes that it could be because they want increase production.

I'm not buying that.
 
That would seem counter intuitive.
 
Winslowe said:
I understand that's due to lack of demand for sheet sizes.
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Lack of demand? That’s rubbish, there’s at least 3 people on this forum alone that would buy it :LOL::LOL::LOL:
 
I must admit I've pretty much given up on film, I just cannot justify the prices. It's a real shame as I really like using it. I tend to do a lot of point and shoot photography of things I come across in normal life. If I find an area full of stuff ( I found a grave yard yesterday) I could easily go through a roll of film, at £15 to £20 quid a time including processing . I found a few films rescently that I had lost in a house move but after that I think I'm done. There must be others who feel the same, it's like they are deliberatly trying to destroy them selves.
 
Well, I think the best film can hope for these days is a niche market, and costs go hand in hand with the scale of production. I suspect the true story might be that they are cutting production and therefore it will be more expensive. I daresay they would argue to the contrary, but then they would.
 
I'm the same. I've been shooting film lately on proper cameras. :D Enjoying it too. And then this happens....
 
I hope colour film can survive, although I don't use it, simply because without colour I can't see so many people wanting to take up film photography. I know that most people just used black and white until about the 1960s, but there were no colour alternatives then. Now we have digital cameras and phones to give colour snaps.
 
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