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wray said:
Funny, the big Ritz store here in town stocks mostly 36 exposure rolls of film. Guess you'll have to drive over our way to get some.
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My local Ritz manager has located 40 rolls for me and I'll be getting them soon...it's the main office of Ritz that's making the decision to not send out 36 exposure rolls...
If Riverside still has a big supply it would be worth the drive out there...:D

Just got back from dropping off 10 rolls of film at Ritz camera...I was told that 10 rolls of "Ritz Camera" (Fuji film packaged for Ritz) 36 exposure/200 ASA were found in the Riverside area...that's all that was out there...
Let me also say this they carry other/different types of film in 36 exposure but not what I've been using for the last 5 or more years...they will continue with their own label 200 ASA film but in 12 & 24 ex. rolls only...
 
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MickH said:
Wot?? D'you mean they put stickers on the CD case so's you can't see anything your nana wouldn't like, or is there something else going on?
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Yes there is something else going on. Walmart actively censors their music and cover art because of their huge market share. And they have determined that we do not want images of devils on covers or any of the seven words. They sell 'radio edit' CDs only.
 
Chris101 said:
Yes there is something else going on. Walmart actively censors their music and cover art because of their huge market share. And they have determined that we do not want images of devils on covers or any of the seven words. They sell 'radio edit' CDs only.
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Ye Gods!

I'm making my first visit to the States this summer, I can't wait to visit one of those places, what a hoot!

I guess they're scared of being sued for a gazillion dollars 'cos someone got upset at the sight of Marylin Manson's dodgy eye.

"the seven words"?? are they printable here?

Back on topic, it seems that 21st Century sales techniques (and stock - wot no analogue?) go hand in hand with a 19th Century moral outlook.

Cheers.
 
To follow up...

To follow up...

The Pro Lab 25 miles away was shut down and boarded up. Looks like I'll have to order chromagenic film, XP-2 or BW400CN online and take it to Walgreens - or put everything in the classifieds when it comes back from DAG.

-- oh well...
 
not again please...

not again please...

I did it that way professionally almost 30 years -- honestly, that sounds like work. Besides, then I'd need a print room or a scanner and that is not what I'm after.

I like slides because 'what you shot is what you got' - negatives allow too much lattitude for error - too much 'fudge-ability' (word?), and I'm more interested in mastering metering technique -- that accomplished, I'd worry about imagery. With slides a largely automated processor does all the drudgery. I could do E-6 'in the sink' but I'd rather mail it to Dwaynes.

Maybe I just don't have 'the rangefinder spirit', but (post stroke) there are too many limitations on available reserves of energy.

Cheers
 
Heard from a friend that he went int a Walmart in Missouri, asked for some Kodak 100 36 exposure film. Clerk said they only had 24 exposure, when that was gone, there would be "no more film". Happened last week.

Film may become a niche market sooner that we thought, Walmart drives a lot of this stuff.
 
Freestyle has Fuji Velvia 50 RVP color slide film unboxed for $6.19 a roll. The catalog states unboxed means pro packs that have been broken down.
 
If I had a quarter for every time a clerk at an one-hour photo telling me they can't run my XP-2 or CN400 through their machines because it is b/w I would have about 5 bucks.
 
While we're on the subject of Fuji...

While we're on the subject of Fuji...

Rayt said:
If I had a quarter for every time a clerk at an one-hour photo telling me they can't run my XP-2 or CN400 through their machines because it is b/w I would have about 5 bucks.
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Funny thing is that, up until about three years ago, I got a lot of that, even at some minilabs where they should've known better.

Anyway: about two months ago, when dropping some film off at my local Rite-Aid (can't speak for others stores in the chain, but I actually like the one near me...and they mostly grok film at this one), and one of the people there informed me that they'd just switched from Kodak to Fuji for their chemistry and paper. Not a major surprise to me, since the photo agency I once worked for made the switch from Kodak to Fuji for their slide-film dupe stock a long time back, and likely for the same reasons: cheaper, better, and faster (in terms of shipping supplies). What's interesting about this now is that when I walk into the store, and look at the film-sale rack (yeah, they have one), all the boxes are now green...except for Rite-Aid's own house-brand stuff (want to bet it's Fuji as well?). Makes me wonder what the deal with Old Yeller is right now, even though there are plenty of places here where the Yellow Box stuff can be had.


- Barrett
 
amateriat said:
all the boxes are now green...except for Rite-Aid's own house-brand stuff (want to bet it's Fuji as well?). Makes me wonder what the deal with Old Yeller is right now, even though there are plenty of places here where the Yellow Box stuff can be had.
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It seems like both Big Yellow and Big Green are getting like Coke and Pepsi, in that they offer the best deals to the chains that stock their stuff as the only name-brand film. If you remember, a few years back Kodak made such a deal with Walgreens, and I think they have one with CVS as well, since both seem to stock Yellow and no Green. Fuji probably made a similar deal with Rite-Aid (which we do not have here).

Interestingly, the best film prices, around here anyway, are often at Target' which stocks both Yellow and Green!
 
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