8x10 Tmax packaging

**Bruce Watson** · 1-Dec-2009, 15:42

Originally Posted by Robert A. Zeichner

I normally fly so I have no choice but to take the film with me as a carry on.

Um... your friend needs to learn about UPS and FedEx. I haven't dared put my film into TSA's inept hands since they screwed up a 50 sheet box of 5x4 Tri-X for me years ago. Now I send the film ahead via UPS or FedEx completely outside the TSA system. Not a problem.

That said, I agree that 10 sheet boxes is stupid. None of the end-user customers want this. But apparently the stores and Kodak do. I wonder who'll win that fight?

**George Stewart** · 1-Dec-2009, 17:33

I stopped using Kodak's 8x10 films for the original reasons stated - volume (and cost) while traveling. The bottom line is that a 10-sheet box is hardly worth considering. I too am shooting Ilford.

Additionally, with the demise of 4x5 Readyloads (B&W), I've almost decided to sell the 4x5.

**Andrew O'Neill** · 1-Dec-2009, 19:27

I recently got my order of 6 boxes 8x10 TMY. Sixty sheets. Lots of boxes but so little film.

CG · 2-Dec-2009, 10:16

I'm usually pretty forgiving of Kodak, given the drubbing the whole analog industry is taking, but on the issue of how many sheets to a box, I'd say 25 is minimum. 10 is a pain in the backside. I'd be happier with 50 or 100.

**Drew Wiley** · 2-Dec-2009, 10:37

We're all preaching to the choir. Some poor department head at Kodak was probably
under a mandate to reduce inventory and overhead or else face the axe himself. The
feelings of the end user rarely factor into decisions in today's economy. I too like the
film but hate the packaging.

**Lenny Eiger** · 2-Dec-2009, 10:54

Originally Posted by Mike1234

There's nothing "green" about analog photography.

Unless you include that an analog photographer might be more likely to use cotton paper vs wood pulp paper....

Probably nothing green about making plastic chips, either.

Complicated....

Lenny