2015 Ilford ULF/custom film run approved... and delivered!

[Oren Grad]

For those who don't regularly stop by APUG: Simon Galley has announced that the Harman board has approved the annual ULF run for this year. Timing will be similar to prior years, with details including retail partners to be announced in March.

http://www.apug.org/forums/forum37/1...-film-run.html

[Ray Hunter]

Just checking to see if any of the 2015 Ilford ULF/custom film orders have been received by customers. I've ordered in years past, but couldn't remember when I received the film. Thanks.

[neil poulsen]

Good news.

[Oren Grad]

Delivery time has varied over the years, though IIRC it's drifted into October in recent runs. I haven't received this year's order yet.

[Sal Santamaura]

Good news.

It was last February. It will be really good news if it happens again in 2016 under HARMAN's new ownership.

...I haven't received this year's order yet.

Nor have I.

[Liquid Artist]

It was last February. It will be really good news if it happens again in 2016 under HARMAN's new ownership.

I wonder if a company like Foma would step up if Ilford stops their special orders.

[IanG]

Adox will already cut ULF sizes to order.

Ian

[Oren Grad]

I wonder if a company like Foma would step up if Ilford stops their special orders.

Just to be clear, what's distinctive about the Ilford program is not that they accept special orders, but that during the designated window they accept special orders in very small quantities - as little as one box. I hope they will be able to continue that, but even if not, I expect that so long as they continue to manufacture sheet film they would also continue to accept special orders for odd sizes that meet their usual minimum order requirement. These could be aggregated by a dealer, as Canham does for Kodak special orders, or by anyone else with sufficient interest. This should be easier than with Kodak, because by all appearances Ilford's minimum order size even outside of the special program is far smaller than Kodak's.

[David Karp]

Delivery time has varied over the years, though IIRC it's drifted into October in recent runs. I haven't received this year's order yet.

I have not received mine either. I ordered from Freestyle.

[IanG]

Having been involved with shipping photo-goods US-UK (as an importer) ) I can only comment that in many cases it's a case of waiting until there's enough to make shipment economic. We had to factor this in and pre-order based on potential sales forecasts.

It's quite different shipping by sea & containers compared to sending smaller packages by air freight which is quite expensive, if a distributor gets charged more they have to pass that on and they'll put a mark up on the additional costs.

My experience was the shippers consolidated loads to be more cost efficient from their perspective and sometimes we got our equipment quickly, other times it might be a couple of months, sometime a bit longer.

Ian