FUJI ACROS 100 to be discontinued?

[brbo]

We have rocket science involved in raw ingredients, science fiction in making film and 1% of previous demand.

And then there are people mocking others that somehow (I really really wonder what could lead them to such conclusion) think Fuji isn’t coating much film (this is not an invitation for yet another Instax escapade, we all know what films we are talking about) anymore.

I, personally, don’t share the idea, but find it possible. I find it entirely possible that some films will never ever be made anymore, no matter how much of a “film revival” there is and demand increase it causes.

 

[Skiff]

Reading this makes me certain that you have never been involved with, or have any notion of what the commercial production of, for example, a long chain organic molecule with a dozen structural isomers and hundreds of stereoisomers, requires. Suppliers to film manufacturers do this and produce a product which is 99.9% one structural and stereoisomer, with less than 0.00001% contaminants, and produce it for less than $US 1,000 a kilogram, and deliver it in up to 100kg lots with less than 6 weeks notice each time.

This thread makes me more and more aware that film users just don’t know what they have in their hands.

Marty

+1.
Film photographers should have more respect to film technology. Film is a kind of "technological miracle". Extremely sophisticated and very hard and complicated to produce.
Every real film producer facing all the huge challenges of keeping the lines running has my full respect.
Bashing any of them is not helpful at all.

 

[phrons]

Sometimes raw materials also become in low demand.

If whatever raw materials needed become in low demand for other industries, the companies that source these materials have to raise their price so high that no one will buy them. So these raw material sourcing companies either shut down or change direction.

Let's not just think of how film impacts business but overall world industry. company that sources certain raw materials is selling to much more bigger industries than the film industry.

 

[shimokita]

Picked up 24 rolls of Fuji Neopan ACOS 100 at Yodobashi Shinjuku Main Store & East branch a few hours ago... the staff said at the current rate that most likely they will run out next month, but currently selling with a 15 roll limit per store per purchase. BIC in Shinjuku historically was selling without limitation and is currently out of stock. Price at Yodobashi is up about Yen 100 per box of three.

 

[Ted Striker]

Picked up 24 rolls of Fuji Neopan ACOS 100 at Yodobashi Shinjuku Main Store & East branch a few hours ago... the staff said at the current rate that most likely they will run out next month, but currently selling with a 15 roll limit per store per purchase. BIC in Shinjuku historically was selling without limitation and is currently out of stock. Price at Yodobashi is up about Yen 100 per box of three.

Nice score of a wonderful film. Enjoy!