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It's listed in the 2018 Firstcall catalogue at £8.99 for 36 exp.
I did that once with a kit of 3 films and a set of 4 plastic 300ml bottles with different coloured lids that I possibly still have somewhere. I never really took to it and only ever digitised 1 slide many years later, and here it is!I used to home process Barfen E6 after 'rolling my own' from a Computrol bulk film loader back in the day. These days I think I'd rather pay £8.99 a roll and send it to a lab, I must be getting middle-aged!
As I mentioned on the other Ektachrome thread, if that's correct then £8.99 a roll would put it at about the same price as Agfa Precisa, so I think Kodak should shift quite a bit of it at that price. I just hope they don't try to make it a 'premium' type product and pitch it at £12 or something like that, as I doubt they'd shift much after people had tried a roll or two and the novelty had worn off.
Well a MF user and paying for any film @ £12 per roll would have to be a VG photographer OR don't care about money..as the total cost inc dev and postage at best e.g. 6X4.5 would be £1 plus a shot if only one decent shot out of a roll and it could cost about £16
Well a MF user and paying for any film @ £12 per roll would have to be a VG photographer OR don't care about money..as the total cost inc dev and postage at best e.g. 6X4.5 would be £1 plus a shot if only one decent shot out of a roll and it could cost about £16
For colour, 5x4 can cost upwards of £8 per frame if developed at a lab. And yet I still shoot it. And while being a mediocre photographer at best. And while not making any money out of it. And while not making a stellar salary.
If it cost me £1 per frame I'd be machine gunning the stuff.
Well a MF user and paying for any film @ £12 per roll would have to be a VG photographer OR don't care about money..as the total cost inc dev and postage at best e.g. 6X4.5 would be £1 plus a shot if only one decent shot out of a roll and it could cost about £16
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Well a MF user and paying for any film @ £12 per roll would have to be a VG photographer OR don't care about money..as the total cost inc dev and postage at best e.g. 6X4.5 would be £1 plus a shot if only one decent shot out of a roll and it could cost about £16
It's a hobby so cost/benefit is up to individual pleasure surely.
just as well the forum is not full of old farts
I'm afraid my attitude is that it's cheaper than it used to be. Converting from prices then to prices now, when I was a student (50 years ago) a 36 exposure black and white film cost £14 to put into my manual focus, no meter SLR which cost just short of £2,000. I metered using my £500 Lunasix meter. I didn't use Kodachrome because at £35 for 36 exposures it was too expensive. The budget lenses that were all I could afford cost around £400 - and didn't even stop down automatically for the exposure. The manufacturers' high quality lenses started at around £800 upwards. And that was just for the common focal lengths of 35mm, 135mm etc. Specialist lenses were more.
Based on that, my Canon A1 which cost around £230 with 50mm f/1.8 lens in 1980 would equate to around £1,200 at today's money give or take a few quid. This was Canon's 'prosumer' flagship at the time, bettered only by the top of the range F1n, which was more expensive. Fast forward to these days, how much is a 5D iv (equivalent 2nd down from top) without f/1.8 50mm lens? So I don't think we're exactly rolling in clover with that 'like-for-like' comparison, are we? And as for a Lunasix at £500, I've got a used one here you can have for £60. Bargain.
If it cost me £1 per frame I'd be machine gunning the stuff.
Yeah right