Price of Kodak Ektar 4x5 gone up 20-30%+ ?

[EdSawyer]

I just noticed Kodak Ektar 100 in 4x5 seems to have shot up in price from $35/box to $49/box just recently? For a long time it was the cheapest C41 film from Kodak, less than Portra 160 and 400. Now it seems like it's the most expensive! >:-/

WTF kodak, let's be consistent if you want to keep selling film...

Freestyle seems to still have it at the "old" price of about $35/box so I ordered 5 boxes from them. Hopefully the price will come back down, it was already egregious enough as it was (and the annoying kodak habit of only selling 10-sheet boxes is a constant annoyance.)

-Ed

[goamules]

I couldn't believe what the local artsy photo shop was selling 4x5 for, pushing $80 a box. I asked "Is that 25 in a box?" No, just 10. Velvia in 35mm has gone from $8 five years ago to about $15 last time I checked there. Film is a niche luxory item now.....it will just get more expensive. You can still get Ilford Black and White fairly cheap though.

[vinny]

Get all you can afford from freestyle while u can for $35
Cheaper to buy 8x10 and cut it down!!!!
Kodak? That's the company who used to sell film, right?

[tgtaylor]

Ektar is not the only Kodak product with a price increase. Dektol went from $6.95 for a gallon package to $10.00 at my local supplier. At B&H its now priced at $10.95. Dektol is now more expensive than Xtol - $9.06 locally and $9.95 at B&H.

Thomas

[John Kasaian]

Kodak and it's prices. Don't get me started. Grrr!

[JMO]

I just ordered some Ektar 4x5 film at Badger Graphics at $32.99 per 10 sheet box. ...

[Old-N-Feeble]

I lost money selling all my Ektar 100 a year ago during a time of financial stress. I guess I should have sold something else and waited to sell the Ektar.

[jp]

They don't make sense. TMY2 is their cheap film in B&W 120 format, and their expensive film in B&W LF. Good deals don't last; get what Ektar you can if you can get it for 30-something a box. It's good film.

[EdSawyer]

Yeah, I could handle across-the-board increases if they are consistent, but huge swings in price is just a pain in the ass. I love Ektar, and use it all the time. That's crazy about the Dektol price too! (though Dektol != Xtol as far as usage, but still...)

[Deval]

makes it more expensive per sheet than slide film...even if you include processing...maybe this will give fuji a boost