Kodak Elite Chrome Discontinued

[kzphoto]

November 23 2011 UPDATE: RFF has been updated by Kodak this post is incorrect, as only ONE film below is actually discontinued, ELITE CHROME!

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Our wholesale supplier just got a new kodak catalogue and passed along a little blurb letting us know that these films are discontinued:

Tmax 400 120 IN SINGLE ROLLS
Tri-x pan 120 400 IN SINGLE ROLLS
Elite Chrome 100/36
BW400cn/24 three packs
Gold 200/24 four packs
Max 400/12 single roll
Max 400/24 four packs

Pro packs should still be available on the t-max and tri-x films.
Oi vey. :bang:

http://t.co/vPQFjwMC

 

[porktaco]

the f*ck? the end times...

 

[cosmonaut]

I'm stocking up. Every time I get paid I buy some film.

 

[dcsang]

If this is true. . . . I am going to be spending a LOT on film to put in the freezer AND on powdered developer (x-tol)...

This makes me, as the kids would say, "a sad panda" 🙁

Dave

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

Is the Tri-X mentioned here THE Tri-X. the one that has been around since 1954?

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/29170-USA/Kodak_8667073_TX_135_36_Tri_X_Pan.html

If so, I thought this is the one that would be around forever. What is the alternative?

production is not discontinued.

 

[newsgrunt]

ok, my read is that we will not be able to purchase ONE (SINGLE, INDIVIDUAL) roll of film on it's own. Nothing says Tri X is eol'ed. It means propacks or what not but Tri X will still be made. At least that's my interpretation.

perhaps the thread title should be edited to avoid Doom and Gloom posts ? If it's not discontinued (ie- no more film being made.period), maybe don't post it in the title. ymmv

 

[kzphoto]

I think they're just trimming down sizes that aren't as commercially viable. IE single rolls of Tri-X and T-Max.

Pro Packs of 120 and 35mm rolls are still in the catalogue.

 

[finguanzo]

The film is not discontinued, they just wont sell single rolls anymore, only bricks i guess.
Let the madness begin!!! :bang: 😀

 

[dcsang]

Maybe some of you can refresh my memory - when have you ever been able to buy a "pro pack" of Tri-X in 35mm?

I can buy it in 120.
I can buy pro-packs of Portra etc. in 35mm but I don't ever recall Tri-X being sold as such.

When ever I've purchased Tri-X it's always been as 10 rolls or 6 rolls or 5 rolls or 3 rolls - yes, they're more than "one" but they're all multiples of the single roll boxing.

Curious,
Dave

 

[Gumby]

Oi vey. :bang:

My sentiments exactly. Removing Kodak Gold 200 4-packs from the line-up is hitting below the belt if you ask me. OY VEY!

 

[finguanzo]

dcsang, I see your point. Maybe they will stop boxing them individually.. ?

 

[sevo]

Tmax 400 IN SINGLE ROLLS
Tri-x pan 400 IN SINGLE ROLLS

Going by Kodak Germany (who only a few weeks ago started a web shop where you can order them in 135 by the single pack only) that would be IN SINGLE 120 ROLLS - that is rather a difference. The more so as I haven't seen anything other than 120 pro packs at dealers for the past decade or more!

The demise of Elite Chrome has already been bemoaned - but that there won't be enough of a market for both consumer and professional varieties of slide film has been predicted by many even when scanning still was state of the art.

About the same goes for the short size consumer CN films. Disposables have taken over the ultra casual use film market long ago, and I have never seen a unexpired 135-12 roll except in Japan - and even 135-24 rolls had already grown increasingly scarce hereabouts even before digital took off, as film makers, labs and sellers alike tried to push consumers to increase their film use.

 

[sevo]

My sentiments exactly. Removing Kodak Gold 200 4-packs from the line-up is hitting below the belt if you ask me.

Uh, it is 24 exposure Gold! What is worse, the four-pack of it. Personally, I cannot help feeling that that has always been a very bizarre packing size. Why should people that don't even want to buy one 36 exposure film have any reasonable desire to buy four 24 exposure rolls at once?

 

[dcsang]

I've put out a tweet to @Kodak and @KodakCB on twitter to determine if there's any truth to this - I'm specifically concerned about Tri-X - but I haven't heard back anything yet - I would like some sort of confirmation before there's a huge run on what stock is out there 🙂

Cheers,
Dave

 

[Gumby]

Uh, it is 24 exposure Gold! What is worse, the four-pack of it. Personally, I cannot help feeling that that has always been a very bizarre packing size. Why should people that don't even want to buy one 36 exposure film have any reasonable desire to buy four 24 exposure rolls at once?

Thanks for sharing your personal opinion. Snarky, but interesting nonetheless.

For whatever reason that is the packaging format that is stocked in US drug and convenience stores. Seldom seen anymore are single rolls of film at these venues. When they have 4-packs on the racks they do not seem to have a problem selling it. So there must be plenty of people out there, like me, who buy it and don't mind that it is 24 vs 36 exposure. Gold, BTW, is a respectable and affordable emulsion. 24 exposure is a reasonable and oft-used size.

 

[tunebomb]

Uh, it is 24 exposure Gold! What is worse, the four-pack of it. Personally, I cannot help feeling that that has always been a very bizarre packing size. Why should people that don't even want to buy one 36 exposure film have any reasonable desire to buy four 24 exposure rolls at once?

In some places it was financially advantageous to shoot 24exp c41 film in larger quantities.

 

[unixrevolution]

Uh, it is 24 exposure Gold! What is worse, the four-pack of it. Personally, I cannot help feeling that that has always been a very bizarre packing size. Why should people that don't even want to buy one 36 exposure film have any reasonable desire to buy four 24 exposure rolls at once?

Not because of the total number of frames, but because of the number of frames they want to be committed to a single speed and emulsion type at a stretch. This is why I sometimes wish I could get 12-exposure rolls of some films. I just don't necessarily want to shoot 36 exposures, because light changes or because the subject matter is ephemeral.

 

[Jamie123]

Maybe some of you can refresh my memory - when have you ever been able to buy a "pro pack" of Tri-X in 35mm?

I can buy it in 120.
I can buy pro-packs of Portra etc. in 35mm but I don't ever recall Tri-X being sold as such.

When ever I've purchased Tri-X it's always been as 10 rolls or 6 rolls or 5 rolls or 3 rolls - yes, they're more than "one" but they're all multiples of the single roll boxing.

Curious,
Dave

Relax. The OP didn't say anything about Tri-X in 35mm. It's the 120 that's now only available in pro-packs.

 

[Gumby]

I just don't necessarily want to shoot 36 exposures, because light changes or because the subject matter is ephemeral.

... and because many of is are well past the "shoot machine-gun style" and "bracket each shot" phase.

 

[pschauss]

FWIW, the Kodak store shows Trix-120 as "out of stock". OTOH, they were giving away individual rolls of it at their booth at the show at the Javits Center last month.