Is Fuji gone from Walgreens?

[dmr]

Hmmmm ... Just stopped there for some other stuff. I almost always check film prices. All yellow boxes, no green! The clerk there (kid who looked about 16, the photo dept was closed) didn't know.

Anybody know for sure?

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Hmmm... I don't remember having seen Fuji in Walgreen's (not in my town). Lots of yellow, sure, but no green. Now, my Jewel supermarket and Target store carry the stuff.

 

[parks5920]

Longs carries alot of Fuji.

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

I don't think they have Longs back east. Or in the midwest.

 

[dmr]

Well, I just stopped in another Walgreens to drop off a 12 shot test roll from the latest old Mamiya SD and I asked the lady at the photo section what the story was. She said that yes, corporate decision at the regional level, they have dropped Fuji. "They told us they had some trouble with it." was what she said. (?????) She said there are no plans to scrap the Fuji processing equipment they use.

I asked her flat out if there were any plans to drop film. "No. We sell a lot of film and if anything film sales are up this summer."

I prefer Fuji, but I'm not a snob about it. I know Fuji is available almost everywhere else, even supermarkets, Target' of course, even {_gag_} Wally World. Oh well ...

 

[doubs43]

I buy the Walgreen's brand color film which is made by Agfa. I recently purchased a 4-pack of 24 exposure ISO-400 film for $4.00. I'm waiting for them to offer the ISO-200 film at that price. I like it and have it processed - negatives only, no prints - by my friendly full-service camera store. I get my un-cut negatives in a sleeve back in about 15 minutes. It cost me $1.95 for a 24 exposure roll.

Walker

 

[dmr]

I buy the Walgreen's brand color film which is made by Agfa.

Unfortunately I had a bad experience with Walgreens house brand film. 🙁 Last spring I was doing some night shots on the Las Vegas Strip using Fuji 800. I ran out of film and stopped into the Walgreens by the MGM Grand. (This is right in the heart of Touristaville.) They had Fuji 800 at one arm and one leg or Walgreens 800 at $3 and change. I went for the house brand 800. I had both the Fuji and the Walgreens processed at Wally World the next day and the difference was much too obvious. Where the Fuji had nice black solids the Walgreens had green specks. The Walgreens had blown-out highlights where the Fuji had far better detail. The grain was much more evident in the Walgreens brand film.

Overall I was disappointed in the performance of it. 🙁

 

[doubs43]

Do you know who actually made the 800 ISO film? That's one I'm not familiar with. I'm attaching a picture I took two weeks ago on Walgreen's Agfa 400 film using a 500mm Vivitar lens with a doubler making it a 1000mm lens. The image was then cropped. It shows the instant of impact of a lead bullet on a steel target at approximately 210 meters. The blue "smoke" along the rail and feet of the target and the target to the right is the disintegrated bullet. The point of impact is the mark on the "chest" of the left-most ram. IMO, the colors are pretty decent and pretty accurate as well. It was a hot day but fairly clear and I didn't use a filter.

I'll have a look at Walgreen's 800 film the next time I'm near one of their stores to see who makes the 800 speed film for them.

Walker

Unfortunately I had a bad experience with Walgreens house brand film. 🙁 Last spring I was doing some night shots on the Las Vegas Strip using Fuji 800. I ran out of film and stopped into the Walgreens by the MGM Grand. (This is right in the heart of Touristaville.) They had Fuji 800 at one arm and one leg or Walgreens 800 at $3 and change. I went for the house brand 800. I had both the Fuji and the Walgreens processed at Wally World the next day and the difference was much too obvious. Where the Fuji had nice black solids the Walgreens had green specks. The Walgreens had blown-out highlights where the Fuji had far better detail. The grain was much more evident in the Walgreens brand film.

Overall I was disappointed in the performance of it. 🙁

 

[dmr]

Do you know who actually made the 800 ISO film? That's one I'm not familiar with.

I assumed it was Agfa. I'm not really 100% sure though.

I'm attaching a picture I took two weeks ago on Walgreen's Agfa 400 film

Oh, yours came out perfectly fine. I tried the Polaroid brand 200 from Wally World and it looked fine for daylight stuff. It's just this particular 800 film that disappointed me. Here's the original thread about this with 2 attachments.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6348

The left one was on the Walgreens 800 film. The green dirt in the background may not show on your monitor, but it's there. It shows on my monitor at work, and on my laptop, but not so much on the big monitor at home.

I'll have a look at Walgreen's 800 film the next time I'm near one of their stores to see who makes the 800 speed film for them.

I would be interested in hearing if anybody else had similar luck (or lack of it) with this. It may have even been a bad or stale batch. I would have blamed the processing if I didn't have the Fuji done at the same time with good results. Since then I've stuck with Fuji and sometimes Kodak.