Fuji film price hike in the offing

[dourbalistar]

I agree wholeheartedly, Peter! In marketing as with film, overexposure is better than underexposure. Someone in Fujifjilm management should push for better marketing to pull in new customers. They should look to tap into underdeveloped consumer markets.

 

[css9450]

Wow, what a development! I'd better stop now, so it can be fixed. Its all a wash in the end!

 

[michaelwj]

With all the film discontinuations and price hikes, Fujifilm has done a lot of Harman damage to their name. I know they are a diversified company, but if their film manufacturing division dyes off, they should consider changing their name to simply Fuji.

Instax is still film...

 

[dourbalistar]

Instax is still film...

What the halide, be darned... Looks like in this instant, I stand corrected.

 

[dourbalistar]

I don't have an instax camera, but I hear great things about them. Folks like Ted Striker rave about them. Seems there's literally no negative.

 

[johannielscom]

Lol

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[ptpdprinter]

Unless prices stay the same or go down, neither of which is likely to happen, people will complain. I think most rational people would prefer higher prices to discontinuation of product, but at a certain point it doesn't make much difference.

 

[dourbalistar]

Unless prices stay the same or go down, neither of which is likely to happen, people will complain. I think most rational people would prefer higher prices to discontinuation of product, but at a certain point it doesn't make much difference.

Yes, and the Fujifilm haters seem to complain with an especially awful DIN.

 

[Ted Striker]

Unless prices stay the same or go down, neither of which is likely to happen, people will complain. I think most rational people would prefer higher prices to discontinuation of product, but at a certain point it doesn't make much difference.

I would have happily paid 30% more for Neopan 400 and Acros. Sadly, Fujifilm did not give me the chance.

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Yes, and the Fujifilm haters seem to complain with an especially awful DIN.

Dourbalistar, keep 'em coming you're on a ROLL!

Mike

 

[philosli]

Price is never determined by cost, but by the market. If Fujifilm believes their customers are willing to stomach the price hike, then why not? The firm will seek the best pricing to maximize its profits. Even though higher price means lower sales, if Fujifilm believes the price differential may well more than compensate the sale loss, then price hike!

To elicit sympathy and support from their customers, price-hiking is always advertised as covering raising manufacturing cost. But the truth is, unless market forces them, the company never drops price when the manufacturing becomes cheaper.

If the market price of certain films cannot cover their manufacturing cost, Fujifilm will stop making it. Actually it just did for several in the past years.

 

[dourbalistar]

Film discontinuations and rising prices are simply the burden we film photographers have to bear. That's just the landscape we live in today. I wish I could paint a happier portrait, but you know what they say: no pain, no grain.

 

[maigo]

If we are not focal about our desire for more films from Fuji they will leaf the film business and shutter their doors in an instax.


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[dourbalistar]

At Arista sounding like a pessimist, I'm afraid Fujifilm won't listen to their loyal customers. Despite our pleas, it appears Fuji films are in a darkslide toward extinction.

 

[michaelwj]

I thought we were getting close to the base of the canister with these puns, but you lot just keep pushing.

 

[pyeh]

Gloomy-Indonesian-island-Celebrity is the leader! Can-his-star shine any brighter?

 

[maigo]

Fuji film price hike in the offing

This circular argument is polarizing their customers. The linear price increase warms some to the continued film availability and cools others to its imminent demise.
I am not neutral in this matter, hanging on by a thread. I do however insinghst on a dense range of products.


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[dourbalistar]

Are we all resigned to this f/8? Will we just CineStill and take it? Who will grab a Holga the bull by its horns, and aperture the market that Fujifilm is vacating?

 

[jonmanjiro]

I wouldn't want to blow the highlights, but if pushing this developing thread results in any unwarranted exposure, as a mod I may have to fix it and cut out any negative 😉

But, dourbalistar you are the leader here without a doubt, no trimming necessary. I take my lens cap off to you.

 

[pyeh]

OK. Here's another official announcement - we've jumped the shark. Mods making puns is the beginning of the end of the roll, perhaps frame 34.