No, the 50-sheet box of 4x5 TXP was brought back and is a current Alaris stock item.Originally Posted by letchhausen
I'm going to try converting the list to pdf and attaching it here so we'll all be on the same page - it's labeled "2017", but if you follow the "2018 Pro Film List" from the Alaris website, it links to this list. Will add the special order list too.
I don't follow 4x5 TXP, but 5x7 is still $179.95 per 50-sheet box, which is unchanged for many months. B&H currently has 12 boxes in stock.
4x5 TMX increased a few months ago from, as I recall, $89.95 per 50-sheet box to $99.95. 4x5 TMY has been stable for nearly a year at $127.00 per 50-sheet box.
FYI, B&H currently has 21 10-sheet boxes of 8x10 320TXP in stock. It's what left of an approximately 150-box shipment that arrived some months ago, i.e. well before April 1 of this year. Also, B&H still has 47 10-sheet boxes of 8x10 TMY-2 in stock at an unchanged price of $89.95 each. Those were part of the most recent shipment of 148 boxes, which I mentioned in this December 28, 2017 post:
Sal, B&H now has 11 boxes of 5X7 Tri-X 320. The one size I didn't have.
I am going to shoot my 4X5, 5X7, 8x10 and 11X14 Tri-X 320 very carefully and hope it lasts me well into
I also saw that price anomaly, but you pushed me over the
The special run of 5x7 TMY is more expensive than cutting 8x10 down, so Oren's point about Tri-X might be the best explanation. Special runs/cuts cost more.
The fact that B&H still has 47 10-sheet boxes of 8x10 TMY-2 in stock at an unchanged price of $89.95 each may be pertinent in evaluating that conclusion.
Even though B&H's remaining stock of 8x10 320TXP was purchased at Alaris' old wholesale price well before April 1, B&H increased the retail price yesterday. However, those 47 10-sheet boxes of 8x10 TMY-2 are still offered at $89.95 each. It's possible that Alaris hasn't received any special orders for 8x10 TMY-2 lately and, therefore, hasn't announced a price increase on that product yet, but will the next time someone places an order. If it does, based on the previous retail price ratio, we can expect that B&H will raise its asking price for 8x10 TMY-2 to somewhere in the range of $144 per 10-sheet box. We shall see.
They seem to spike pricing when the inventory of an item is slim or slow to arrive, then balance the price back down when it is relatively abundant. Timing is
everything.
It's lovely film and a joy to work with, but Kodak sheet film and I had to part ways back during the TMY2 10 sheet box days, and I'm OK with that.
Ilford gets 'er done and so does FOMA (kind of) and maybe one of these days I'll even get x-ray film figured out---then dry plates.
Kodak's shenanigans are disheartening though. Like watching Eddie Haskell take your best gal to the Senior Prom.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
Cost of 8x10 film is what it is. IMO, if film cost for a given film format is too high, find an alternative including different film format sizes but know there is a very real risk that film supplier might disappear (in this case Kodak) if the user base stops using-purchasing their film.
Accept the cost of $20 per sheet of 8x10 Kodak B&W film for what it is and move on. This should be part of the cost of producing 8x10 B&W images. For what ever reason there appears to be the remarkable draw for many image makers to produce images on 8x10 then discounting smaller or other film format sizes as lesser and images produced on 8x10 as the automatic means of the "better" image.
Reality is, 8x10 has a LOT of post camera challenges from enlargement and print production unless contact prints are made. IMO, contact printing with traditional silver gelatin print process and alternative print making processes is what appears to be driving film formats of 8x10 and larger.
Bernice
For anyone who finds themselves unwilling or incapable of paying extortionist prices for Tri-X 320, please consider trying Bergger's Pancro 400. Its quite unlike HP5.
Yes, it is. That's why, in post #15, I gave a heads-up to anyone who uses and wants 8x10 TMY-2 that B&H still has 47 boxes of it at $89.95. For quite a while, including when I purchased a few boxes, it was selling for $104.95. Some time last year it dropped $15.00. Now would seem to be a good time to stock up, i.e. before Alaris repeats its 320TXP action and bumps TMY-2 up to somewhere in the neighborhood of $144.00.
If others clean out B&H's stock of 8x10 TMY-2, it'll save me from temptation.
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