It's a fine balancing act isn't ? Kodak and Fuji have bumped up prices recently as things get smaller scale and more niche.. they can't do it too much though as it starts to put people off shooting film altogether. Essentially we're paying about £20 for roll/dev/scan for 35mm Portra or Fuji Pro. That's alright as an occasional thing, but not something that's sustainable shooting day in/day out (for me at least).
I get the impression film is just about keeping it's head above water.
I read the other week that Hasselblad have discontinued Flextight scanners, and along with the previously canned Noritsu and Fuji Froniters means there isn't a new lab scanner available. Everyone is trying to keep their existing scanners going, which increasingly fall over as they get older. Lab I use is a mess of semi-broken/ just about working machines out back.
The one positive thing is Fuji bringing Acros back when it looked as though they where pulling out of film altogether. Hopefully they'll commit further as they produce so much that the film industry needs - film, paper, chems, cameras, scanners etc
Regarding the dying of pro scanners - yea that's a shame.
I guess the upside is people / labs can go the digital camera & lighttable scanning - route nowadays, yet this does not help with cheap(ish) dev&scan bundles for whole rolls of course.
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It's a fine balancing act isn't ? Kodak and Fuji have bumped up prices recently as things get smaller scale and more niche.. they can't do it too much though as it starts to put people off shooting film altogether. Essentially we're paying about £20 for roll/dev/scan for 35mm Portra or Fuji Pro. That's alright as an occasional thing, but not something that's sustainable shooting day in/day out (for me at least).
I get the impression film is just about keeping it's head above water.
I read the other week that Hasselblad have discontinued Flextight scanners, and along with the previously canned Noritsu and Fuji Froniters means there isn't a new lab scanner available. Everyone is trying to keep their existing scanners going, which increasingly fall over as they get older. Lab I use is a mess of semi-broken/ just about working machines out back.
The one positive thing is Fuji bringing Acros back when it looked as though they where pulling out of film altogether. Hopefully they'll commit further as they produce so much that the film industry needs - film, paper, chems, cameras, scanners etc