"Attention Valued Freestyle Customer"

[Pickett Wilson]

These calculators don't really saying anything about the buying power of our paychecks, though. My $3200 new car in 1969 is now $32,000 dollars. My first house note was $120 a month in the mid 1970's. Buying power is far more complicated than inflation calculators.

 

[batterytypehah!]

^ Plus, inflation calculators average out all kinds of goods and services. Don't forget, though, that the US dollar was pegged to gold in 1958, at the rate of $35 per ounce. Today's gold price: $1,365, and trending up. Exactly 39 times what it was in '58.

Translation: In gold terms, you'd be paying 23 bucks for that 20 exposure roll of Tri-X today.

 

[wjlapier]

Panicky response--bought 100 rolls of Arista Premium 😱

 

[Mackinaw]

Panicky response--bought 100 rolls of Arista Premium

Likewise, I just bought a 100' roll of Arista Premium 400.

Jim B.

 

[Paddy C]

These calculators don't really saying anything about the buying power of our paychecks, though. My $3200 new car in 1969 is now $32,000 dollars. My first house note was $120 a month in the mid 1970's. Buying power is far more complicated than inflation calculators.

Well, since we are all PhD economists in this forum, let's wrap our collective brain power around this problem and determine, to the cent, the relative cost of Tri-X in 1958. 🙄

 

[Tom A]

I think it was 1000 36 exposure rolls:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rapidwinder/5405760759/

Indeed. it was a 1000 36 exp. rolls. I kept 600 and parted out 400 to friends. I have about 8-900 ft of 100ft Arista (and 1000 ft of TriX/ 400 ft of Legacy Pro and some Neopan 400). Problem is that if I want to use Bessa's/ZM/s and M6/MP's - they dont take the IXMOO cassettes - so this was the reason behind the 36 exp. rolls.
The M2's are dedicated to XX in IXMOO cassette (5000+ feet in stock). Some one asked me if I was "snubbing" my M's as most of the stuff so far on the current back to basic series has been shot with Nikon Rf's. I did have about 40+ Nikon reloadables filled with TriX/Arista so I decided to use that first and then go to "regular" loads. I think there are 8 more Nikon reloads to shoot and then out comes the MP/M6?ZM/Bessa's.

 

[GSNfan]

As someone who does not like to be rushed into making a decision, I'm going to wait until I have finished all the film I currently have and my ongoing project which i shoot with film is also over. Only then I'll see if i'm going to spend the money on film or an Olympus XZ-1 to shoot at night for a while.

 

[Eric L]

From a historical perspective, film and paper is still cheap.

Not sure about North America, but paper was ridiculously expensive in Asia. Looking at my grandparents photographs in Hong Kong from the 40s and 50s, I didn't understand at first why they were all so tiny. Needed a magnifying glass to make out faces in big group pictures. Until I realised they were all contact prints from roll film. You only enlarged the really special pictures.

But of course gramps didn't have the choice to go digital...

 

[nlubis]

Bought 30 Arista Premium 400.🙄

 

[raytoei@gmail.com]

what happened to acros 100, i mean legacy pro 100 ?

 

[rover]

what happened to acros 100, i mean legacy pro 100 ?

I noticed this afternoon it was only available in bulk rolls.

LP 100 is only available in 24 exposure rolls.

But you can pre-order EDU 200/Foma 200 which is expected to arrive @2/28.

 

[dazedgonebye]

Should have included a roll of this in my last order to try it out...
Arista EDU in 120.
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/190120-Arista-EDU-Ultra-BandW-100-iso-120-size?cat_id=403

Anyone have experience with it?

 

[DNG]

Now that I am developing BW film... I just bought 100' Legacy Pro on sale 2 weeks ago, and with my last Paycheck, I bought the top end bulk loader + 20 cartridges and more Xtol.

Freestyle IS MY place for film/chemistry.... bar none. 😀

And great CS with knowledgeable people, who really go the extra mile to help you when you need to call them.

 

[wjlapier]

Should have included a roll of this in my last order to try it out...
Arista EDU in 120.
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/190120-Arista-EDU-Ultra-BandW-100-iso-120-size?cat_id=403

Anyone have experience with it?

Doesn't like to stay flat--tough to scan.

 

[dazedgonebye]

Doesn't like to stay flat--tough to scan.

Bummer, how about Fomapan?
(If I'm stocking up, something less expensive might be good)

 

[Keith]

I wish we had something like Freestyle in this country ... this is what we're up against and it makes no sense to me with the OZ dollar being where it is.

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Kodak Tri X 400 35mm 36exp

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[benlees]

Freestyle must be having a good week. Seems like everyone is ordering- myself included.

 

[al1966]

Ah this will eat into my film and dev budget, I guess Ill have to look out for some bargains or a good bulk buy. Im not so worried about 35mm black and white as a bulk roll cuts cost well. Its 120 colour that hurts but Ill just have to suck it up.

 

[Harry Lime]

Timing is everything - my 1000 rolls of Arista Premium 400 arrived last week! Still, even if the price is going up some 10-15% - it is still reasonable. Just checked today at a store here in Vancouver. My price for TriX - even in bulk volume would be close to $6/roll with taxes. The Arista came in at $2.55/roll, shipping and taxes included! That is a $3450 saving!
Freestyle is also very efficient and pleasant to deal with.
Fireboy: dont have room for more film - shooting fast and furiously - just to squeeze another 100 into the fridge.

Yep, prices in Vancouver are insane. Almost twice as much as in the US.
I been up here now for about 6 months and it came as something of a surprise, so I plan on making a very large order from Freeestyle...probably sooner than later.

 

[Paddy C]

Yep, prices in Vancouver are insane. Almost twice as much as in the US.

I think that applies to Canada in general. I simply won't buy film from a Canadian seller as the prices are just nuts.

I can place an order with B&H, find anything I want in stock (try that in Canada), pay for UPS shipping (takes about two days), and save about 40-50%.