Fuji Acros 100 in 100ft bulk rolls!

[felipe]

Don't know if Acros is commonly available in bulk rolls in the US, but since it's NOT in Europe I thought this might be interesting for the fellow self loading folks:

http://www.unicircuits.com/shop/product_info.php?currency=EUR&cPath=27&products_id=38

Price is $41.81 + S&H

They also have Neopan 400 in rolls at $33.71! Pretty cheap at least compared to the EU prices.
Don't know how much shipping will be but I'd be in if we pull up a group order!

cheers,
Phil

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

That is a pretty good price. I do have a rough cost formula, though. I add about $3 for tax, divide the cost of that by 18 (very conservative amount of rolls I get per 100 roll) then add about $9 (for shipping). Then I compare how much that would be if I were to buy per roll. Sometimes it comes about even or within a nickel ($0.05) per roll.

Thought I'd share that so that others may also do some of their own bean counting.

But thanks for the info! A new bookmark.

 

[felipe]

remember there's VAT missing from your formula though 😀
Taxes are the lesser evil most of the time, as they're mostly below 6% anyways, and then they tax you for the items value only (at least they did the last time I bought from the US), whereas VAT is charged based upon the final sum (item + shipping)


I just created an account there, and depending on how many rolls you buy the final price (incl. shipping, VAT, sans taxes) would be 2.45 Euros at worst (buying only 1 roll) and about 2.15/2.20 Euros if you buy 6 rolls.

Given that one roll of acros 100 goes for about 3.80Euros at our local calumet plus I'd still have to actually go there and pick it up, the price is VERY cheap. (If you have spare cartridges of course)

Too bad they don't sell Tri-x 😀

cheers,
Phil

P.S.: For those who don't want to create an account: Shipping starts at 5.76 Euros, at 6 rolls you end up paying roughly 25 Euros. Not bad at all.

 

[peter_n]

Too bad they don't sell Tri-x 😀

Maybe they sell Neopan 400, Phil? It's really a wonderful film! 🙂

 

[felipe]

Maybe they sell Neopan 400, Phil? It's really a wonderful film! 🙂

They do actually, (see the initial post 😀).
And you are right, it's a wonderful film! On a recent job I bought NP400 instead of the usual Tri-x and shot at 400 I got nice tonality and quite smooth grain.
From my experience it behaves very similar to Tri-x but looses more of its mids (than Tri-x) when being pushed to 800. It appears to be not that forgiving when overexposed, but I couldn't compare the two directly yet.

Another thing I noticed is that it scans better, especially high contrast scenes.
I kept getting nasty "clogged-up grain patches" with Tri-x when scanning it on my epson 4870, a thing of the past with neopan! 😀

Don't know why I like Tri-x so much, it's just so.. trusty, reliable, predictable.
I don't trust Neopan 400 yet🙂

But for 34 bucks a roll I might just have a closer look!

phil

 

[peter_n]

They do actually, (see the initial post 😀).

Oops, still on my first cup of coffee! 😱

I use it strictly at 320 and get it developed at 400 and it looks stupendous to me.

Another thing I noticed is that it scans better, especially high contrast scenes.

I've seen the same thing. I'm a real amateur at scanning, but Neopan 400 is easy to work with for sure. 🙂

Actually I'm very impressed with the Fuji B&W films in general. They can be a bit on the expensive side here in the U.S. but if you look hard you can get good prices. I'm just back from vacation where I took 100 Acros, 400 & 1600 and they all did well. The 1600 seems to be sensitive to exposure though and I had too many situations where I should have used incident readings and underexposed as a result. Just like any other bad workman, I'm blaming my exposure meter for only being able to read down to -2EV. 😉