Kodak T-Max 120 price increase?

Dante_Stella said:
Film always gets more expensive, but that's because we have long memories of its being cheap - memories untethered to precisely when it was "cheap." For example, TMY was $2.50 a roll about 13 years ago... but that doesn't account for what $2.50 would be with inflation.

Dante
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$2.50 in 2003 dollars is about $3.15 today. The bigger issue is what's happened to the price of silver over those 15 years. In late 2003, spot silver was priced at $4.82/oz. It jumped to nearly $50/oz in 2011 before settling to around $15/oz today. Kodak can no longer count on silver recovery during processing to help mitigate costs(**), so we take the hit with ever-increasing film prices.

(**) A friend of my dad who worked at Kodak Hollywood once told him that Kodak covered virtually all of their fixed costs with silver recovery from film and print processing.
 

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Ted Striker said:
Thank you for posting those links. I wish Fujifilm distributed that message far better. Why not put it on their website? It seems inexplicable to not do that.
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You're welcome. Fujifilm had such a gigantic booth exhibiting so much
- instax in many different ways
- standard film
- silver-halide paper in many different ways
- photofinishing equipment (minilab machines)
- their global Fujifilm Wonder Store concept
- their print exhitions
- desk where visitors could use instax and make scrapbooking and other creative things with Instax shots
- digital X cameras in many ways.
There were so much action that is impossible to show all that on their website.

And: Photokina is also a B2B fair: The Fujifilm partners and distributors have seen the statement.

Cheers, Jan
 
ptpdprinter said:
Hopefully their deeds will match their words, and they won't discontinue any more films.
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Hopefully yes, but I'm being realistic about it. Fujfilm's discontinuation of Acros is a massive blow to their efforts. That film was so amazing, with such incredible reciprocity characteristics that the loss is very regretful. If that film can be lost, any film can be lost. The same with Superia 1600. Incredibly low grain for such a high speed film with spectacular color. I never tried this film until just this year and the results I got from it were incredible. Fujifilm didnt market the film so I hardly knew it even existed. You can't sell what your customers are unaware of. Basic marketing 101.
 
B&H now has some of the highest prices on film of the major retailers, so I dont think its a kodak price change. more likely they are looking to make a little extra $



you can find TMY in 120 film for $25 a pro pack at many places. Samy's for example. they are also about $1.50 a roll cheaper on velvia 50 in 120 than B&H
 
J enea said:
B&H now has some of the highest prices on film of the major retailers, so I dont think its a kodak price change. more likely they are looking to make a little extra $



you can find TMY in 120 film for $25 a pro pack at many places. Samy's for example. they are also about $1.50 a roll cheaper on velvia 50 in 120 than B&H
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Samy's is cheaper for 120 and a lot more expensive (by more than a buck) for 35mm. Guess it depends on your product mix. Note also that B&H prices based on marginal cost of replacing stock, meaning that if Samy's doesn't generally reset prices until it orders again, it's going to be a steep climb.

Dante
 
well three months ago I bought all the stock they had of velvia 50 in 120. 2 weeks later it came back in stock at the same price. here's hoping the 120 prices stay the same.
 
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