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Shocking price of Kodak film
https://analoguewonderland.co.uk/col...b-w-film-30-5m
Ilford Hp5+ 30.5 bulk roll £79:00 at Morco what the hell is going on with Kodak?
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It's about marketing. Tri-X seems to have become popular with trendy young photographers, possibly based on its old reputation even though it is a different film today.
HP5+ is more than good enough for me. |
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Kodak
The price of Kodak B&W film has been outrageous for a number of years now.
Buying in bulk used to be the cheapest way to buy film. However with Kodak, the last time I looked, their 30m bulk film for Tri X was more expensive than buying the equivalent number of pre loaded 36 exp cassettes. Now go and work that one out - if you can! |
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John It must be Northerners and Scotsman who watch prices.
Norm, it surprises me that the inexorable and adverse divergence between Kodak and Ilford prices has come as a shock. I made a real nuisance of myself on Photrio asking for reasons why the bulk roll price of Kodak exceeded the cassette price on a proportional basis when this wasn't true of the likes of Ilford or Foma I never felt I got satisfactory answers but yes even these days all but the diehard "Kodakers" are mentioning the disparity on a cassette for cassette basis Mike |
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Mike it isn't just Northerners or Scotsmen that watch the prices. This topic is always cropping up on the Photrio site. There is a large disparity between Kodak Prices and those of Ilford which apart from possible profiteering what is the reason?
Last edited by John King; 29th September 2021 at 08:04 AM. |
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To reinforce what I said earlier the price of 30m of TriX is (From Morco) £155 the same for HP5 is £79. I had to use them because non of the 'usual suspects AG etc seem to carry the 30m rolls of Tri X.
A 36 exp cassette in Ilford is £6.99 for Kodak make that £9.99 |
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I have seen quite a few American photographers on Youtube that only seem to use Ilford and other European films, chemicals, and papers in their videos.
I wonder if Kodak is comparatively expensive compared to European products, even in it's homeland? Cheers.
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Fuji and Kodak films have just become too expensive for me, I now only buy Ilford and Foma. I have a stock of colour slide and print film when thats gone i will not be buying any more colour films.
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