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Gregg,
Buy all you can because they don't seem to want to reduce the prices here in
North Carolina. I have used this film for available light rated @800(b&w) w/very good results.
I plan to keep watching for the price reduction and thanks for the posting.😎
 
I 've been using film from the 99-cent store with pretty decent results. All sorts of weird and intersting brands are sold at various times and sometimes one sees SamSung and even Fuji. It's all C-41 process. It's always fresh and I can find ISO 100,200, and lately 400. I use it to test cameras, but the results are usually good enough for regular use.
 
I just purchased some fresh Arista EDU Ultra 400 film (135-24)
from a seller currently advertising in photo.net classifieds.

His price is below Freestyle's sale price, and a discount
is offered for buying in quantity. He has plenty in stock.

My purchase arrived very quickly. Highly recommended!
If you are interested and can't find the ad, send me a PM.

Usual disclaimer: I have no connection to this seller, etc.

Chris
 
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meven said:
I found this seller on ebay: collect888, he had quite a lot of negative feedback recently. Has anybody ever dealt with him?

He is the only one with Ilford SFX200 (auction number: 270050262906), it 's quite pricey but concidering Ilford is not producing this film anymore, it might be a good deal.

What do you think?

Thanks
Max
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A bit late to respond, but stay away from him. He's horribly notorious for taking months to ship out your order (IF you're lucky). Each time you ask him about the order status, he'll come up with excuse after excuse after excuse (after excuse). He even makes promises of giving free film to compensate for the wait, but free film means nothing if he doesn't send it out! After waiting over 3 months and still not getting anything, I actively contacted everyone who left him negative feedback to encourage them to file a report. I hope my actions had a hand him getting kicked off of eBay.

Sure, his eBay account has been disabled, but in case anyone is considering ordering from his website: DON'T.

I've ordered from "knotrc" before (mentioned earlier in the thread). His film ended up being half the price of buying locally. No complaints from me! 🙂

Oh, and meven: SFX is coming back 🙂
 
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Yesterday I noticed that my local Osco pharmacy has BW400CN on clearance at half price. $5.50 for 2 rolls.
YMMV of course. I don't know if this is an Osco thing, or just that particular Osco.
 
The local Wegmans has put all B&W film on sale. BW400CN was $1.90/roll, Tri-x 24 was 2.12/roll. Tmax 100 and 400 were on sale too, but I didn't look at the price.
 
It's a shame about colect888 -- I ordered from him, and the film took maybe a week and a half to get there, but he threw in 5 extra rolls of film "for the wait."

Recently I've used ebay seller ultrafineonline, which is the ebay presence of Ultrafine. They also have a web page and a print catalog when you buy something. They sell close-dated and out-dated film for extremely deep discounts. I haven't seen any difference from the fresh stuff yet.

The CVS-brand 35mm color film does indeed look like Fuji. The markings on the negatives sure look like Superia. However, doing a quick google search seems to indicate that maybe it's Konica? Anyway, I buy Superia simply because the CVS stuff has usually been sitting around for a little longer.

The other good thing to do is keep an eye on the 'bay. Sometimes a random person winds up with a few pro-packs of film, and doesn't know what it's worth. I recently picked up 20 rolls of fresh 120 format Kodak Portra 800 for under $2/roll...
 
David Murphy said:
I 've been using film from the 99-cent store with pretty decent results. All sorts of weird and intersting brands are sold at various times and sometimes one sees SamSung and even Fuji. It's all C-41 process. It's always fresh and I can find ISO 100,200, and lately 400. I use it to test cameras, but the results are usually good enough for regular use.
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I picked up some 99-cent store film at their location in Huntington Beach, CA. It was branded "Images" but when I took the film out it obviouslly had a sticker over the canister. Peeling back the sticker reveiled Fuji Superia!

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jho said:
I picked up some 99-cent store film at their location in Huntington Beach, CA. It was branded "Images" but when I took the film out it obviouslly had a sticker over the canister. Peeling back the sticker reveiled Fuji Superia!
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wow
is this even legal?
talk about re badged goods..😱

i am assuming the box "IMAGES" states 24 exposures right? judging from the "24"

but its a 36 exp fuji film.
how funny can it be?
lol
 
haagen_dazs said:
wow
is this even legal?
talk about re badged goods..😱

i am assuming the box "IMAGES" states 24 exposures right? judging from the "24"

but its a 36 exp fuji film.
how funny can it be?
lol
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It gets better, the box is marked as 24+3 exposures, why not just say 27 or 36 for that matter. 🙄

I wonder if it is always fuji or whatever they can get their hands on at the time; it may even be expired, who knows...

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haagen_dazs said:
wow
is this even legal?
talk about re badged goods..😱
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Haha, that's very common actually, though I've never seen rebranded stuff so blatantly obvious! That's why a lot of people hunt around for cheap film at local grocery/department stores. Many times store brand stuff is actually repackaged film produced by companies such as Kodak, Fuji, Konica, AGFA, etc...

When these companies produce their film, they are made on large sheets which are cut down into the smaller strips/sheets (ie: 35mm, 120, 4x5, etc...) we are used to. My understanding is the area on the outer edges of these sheets of film tend not to produce as reliable results as the area in the middle, so they are cut and repackaged as grocery brand store film. The more reliable stuff in the centre is cut and packaged as the manufacturer brand since it produces more reliable and consistent results. The logic is you pay the premium at your camera store for the better quality stuff, whereas you go to the grocery store to get film for the family vacation. Though it may technically be the same film, you're probably not expecting much out of the film you bought with your cigarettes and tampons.
 
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I just recently went into one of the Target stores to get pick up some batteries and
noticed that they were selling Kodak 800 speed film for around $3.25 for there 4
roll packs . I don't use this film very often but @ this price it was had to resist.😎
When I said recently I meant last Saturday(5-6-07).




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Nikon FM2
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Walgreens in Seattle appears to be closing out their stock of Kodak 400 HD for US $4.99 per box of 3 rolls. All of the expiration dates I found were somtime in the second half of 2007 and early 2008.
 
In Everett, WA, King Size Enlargements (formerly Crown Image) has tons of Agfa color film for sale, cheap. I want to say .99 cents a roll, but could be wrong. Assorted types, even some 120. Don't know about expiration dates.
 
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