Fuji discontinuing Quickloads

[Dave Wyatt]

Seeing as I am on the verge fo shifting from medium to large format, this news is making me reconsider...

http://www.bjp-online.com/public/sho...ml?page=872222

[Blumine]

There is nothing on any of the Fuji Film Japan websites or any of the Japanese photo magazines about the demise of quickloads. So this might only apply to the UK.

Blumine

[darr]

Seeing as I am on the verge fo shifting from medium to large format, this news is making me reconsider...

Loading film holders does not stop me from shooting 4x5, although using Quickloads were convenient albeit more expensive. Just my 2¢.

[timparkin]

Seeing as I am on the verge fo shifting from medium to large format, this news is making me reconsider...

http://www.bjp-online.com/public/sho...ml?page=872222

I wouldn't worry too much.. Once you have a few holders and a light tent, your film will now end up cheaper. The only disadvantage will be that carrying 20 sheets of film will now weigh a bit more..

I've posted a little on the comparitive weights over on my blog

http://www.timparkin.co.uk/blog/quickloads-discontinued

Tim

[Dave Wyatt]

I should probably point out I've actually never used a quickload but do have experience of loading holders, I used to have a Horseman monorail that I hardly used and part exchanged toward a Canon 1d mark 2 I have recently sold. Turns out I should have kept the lenses and probably some more of the holders but oh well, live and learn. My worry from this is more along the lines of is it going to become ever harder to source quailty film in 5x4. I would think not but I do worry about these things.

[Gem Singer]

Dave,

Stop worrying. Keep shooting.

When the public stops using the product, the manufacturer discontinues it.

4x5 film will be around as long as there is a demand for it.

[Kuzano]

159 Quickloads in the film refrigerator, plus 4 boxes of cut sheet.

I'm good for a couple of weeks. Then I'll suck up film off the distribution pipeline and eBay. By the time I get done there, the resurgence in film will have begun in earnest (or is it Ernest?), and there will be new quickloads and new emulsions, either from the "impossible project?" or Fuji.

Not to lose sleep over it...

[Songyun]

time to move up to 5X7

[Keith Tapscott.]

time to move up to 5X7

Or better still, 8x10.

[Drew Wiley]

The problem for someone like me is how to keep doing extended backpack trips with the view camera as I start slowing down a bit due to age. Quickloads helped because
they were the lightest and most convenient option. My Harrison tent and Mido holders
add only a pound, but I'm trying to find ways to shed pounds so I can move faster.
Guess I hire a porter (or find a sucker to help with the load). I'm still comfortable with
at least 75lbs in the mtns, but will that be the case when I'm 65 or 70? I sure hope I
don't have to turn to med format, because it just doesn't have the "edge" I like.