photo-breezing

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kodak gold 1815 yen a roll. basic fuji was 200 yen more. just slightly more expensive than this second hand konica mg/d. i haven't bought film in a while. i spent the afternoon trying to find the most credible analysis of film price jump. settled on it being artificially cheap + supply chain as the most credible.

https://storage.googleapis.com/urbo11/urbo11/dasak1.jpg

Wow that’s pricey. Make each shot count !

It's all wildly expensive now. I have a briefcase full of 10-years-expired film; I'm not likely to get good results out of most of it, but I'm not going to buy any new film either.

People were giving analogue/manual stuff away 15-20 years ago. Everyone caught on to the vintage lens thing pretty quick; I'm hunting for a Canon FD mount wide angle (to adapt to EOS R body) and the prices are a little too high for me (and very high if you want 24mm).

not a canon FD expert but i've seen some of the SSC marked ones go for four figures. my understanding is that cine houses buy them to convert to cine lenses that they can rent out. they will pay top $ for wide angle fast lenses.

i've got a olympus om 21mm/2 that has sold for as high as $3-4k on ebay recently... i'm very tempted!

also, it seems like prices right now are not that far out of line compared to pre-digital prices. seems like prices took a real dive after digital took off.

https://mikeeckman.com/2021/11/a-look-back-at-the-prices-of-film/

here's a price list from 1995:

1995 Film Prices (April 1995 Popular Photography Article)

In the April 1995 issue of Popular Photography, the magazine declared this to be the “Golden Age of Color Photography” with more options available than ever before. With such a huge selection, picking which film was right for each occasion was likely confusing, so the magazine put together a five-page comparison of 101 different color films.

Lets stop for a moment and think….wow, 101 different color films! That’s not even including any black and white films. Boy, times have changed.

A majority of the article is in chart form, separating Color Print and Slide films in different sections and the available films sorted by speed, slowest to fastest from ASA 25 to 3200 color print films, and ASA 12 to 1600 slide films. Prices are listed next to each, although they don’t state where they come from and do not include processing. All prices below are 36 exposure 35mm unless noted. Emulsions from Kodak, Fuji, AGFA, 3M, Polaroid, and Konica are listed and a short sentence of each film’s strength is given in the right most column.

Here are some highlights:

Agfacolor HDC100 – $6.79
Fujicolor NPS 160 – $7.84
Kodak Vericolor III 160 (predecessor to Portra) – $7.84
AGFA Optima 200 – $8.11
Kodak Gold Super 200 – $7.57
Fujicolor 400 HG – $8.19
Kodak Royal Gold 400 – $8.82
Fuji Super HG 1600 – $10.56
Konica SR-G 3200 – $12.00
Kodachrome 25 – $11.31
Fuji Velvia 50 – $12.22
Kodak Infrared 50 – $23.09
Kodak Ektachrome 64 – $11.34
Agfachrome RS100 – $12.05
Fuji Provia 100 – $12.55
Kodachrome 200 – $13.86
Fuji Sensia 400 – $14.00
Kodak Ektachrome P1600 – $15.83

you don't need an inflation calculator to see it's in the same ballpark as what film costs now

A three-pack of Kodak Gold 200 is £55 at CameraWorld (UK chain, branches in SE England).
That was the absolute bog-standard film back in the '90s, £2-3/roll - often issued free when you picked up your prints if I remember!

You may well be right about the more exotic transparency films, but the most basic of negative colour film is about 6-8x as expensive as it was 20 years ago. I guess lots of things are...

And I can well believe digital cratered some of the prices above; certainly wasn't paying (equivalent of) $12/roll for Velvia 50 last time I bought it new 11-12 years ago.

Ah, and good to know on the Canon cine conversions!

The SSC stuff is pre-1979 (all "new" FD - the bayonet mount without the floating ring - was multi-coated anyway, without that designation), so in theory should be cheaper, but who knows.

Bit of a hole between 16mm and 50mm after selling a lot of stuff... a nice cheap 28 would be fine (ideally a fifth of the price of the one I sold :) )

here I was thinking I'd try to get into film photography but I don't think I can if it's this pricy...not to mention developing and turning it into digital so I can uhh use it?

just thought of the photo breezing thread since my brother's renewed interest in cameras has caused me to 1) take out my leica, load it up, and start shooting again, and 2) finally develop about 15 rolls from 2016, a mix of color and black-and-white. I'm relieved to learn that my scanner still works, after a software update that has forced me to relearn how to scan. might post more once I have some good scans. it's funny, since I've shot many many thousands of photos in the intervening years, but nearly all digital (and often work-related), now remembering how I shot 8 years ago, and getting the feeling back with the leica. holding it, I really do feel inclined to take very different kinds of photos! I also had no clue that film had gotten so expensive, and was happy to discover a bag of about 15 or so unused rolls, mostly Kodak Gold, Portra, some Ektar, and Tri-X etc. I can't believe how expensive this would all be if I were buying new rolls, paying for scans, etc.! Why do the kids do it??

the thing for me on film cost is that's the only barrier. it's jarring to come back to after not buying film but not to the point that it puts it out of reach if not ripping wildly through it. otherwise i don't mind. i don't have much to compare it to since i never got an updated digital camera. so apart from my phone, if necessary i still use a canon eos from the very early 2000s. it's good but it does require some effort to operate and make good pictures (less than shooting on film and developing, since it does just plug into a macbook still, but with more room for error and the chance of taking pictures all day and coming back with nothing).

70mm zoom lens is my business … and business is good!

I haven't taken a good photo in about 6 years. Except for microscopic tidepool shots with the little Olympus TG5.

https://i.imgur.com/EdLhOvO.jpeg

lookin good! philly?