50 sheets?

[rustyair]

I just bought 2 10 sheets of Portra 160. Will 4x5 50 sheets ever come back?

[Robert Ley]

Don't count on it for color.

[koh303]

One of my students recently bought a 50 pack of ilford 8X10 paper.... i guess its new too.

I would just be happy if there is still film the next time i want to buy some, 10 sheet boxes or otherwise... :(

[eddy pula]

you can find anything if you look hard enough, I usually start at my local hunts, then have them call around, then B&H, then Calumet the Freestyle. Call in person, it helps. Recently I couldn't find 120 tri-x but calumet had like 200 on hand, and a couple years back I ordered 9-100 sheets from freestyle, they were the only people who didn't laff at the request and they got it to me quick and even threw in the shipping for a good joke!

[AnselAdamsX]

You have to buy 50 sheet boxes if you shoot portra in 5x7 :)

[Roger Cole]

One of my students recently bought a 50 pack of ilford 8X10 paper.... i guess its new too.

I would just be happy if there is still film the next time i want to buy some, 10 sheet boxes or otherwise... :(

It was the new MG ART paper, right? That's packed in 50 sheets for 8x10. Makes sense given the price of this premium paper.

[koh303]

No, it was just your regualr MGVIv RC paper. not that THAT is cheap in any way... espceially when you are a student in a state college that costs just as much as a private school and you take a ine time class you couldent care less about... (which is the case with most of my students... :( )

[Noah A]

I really wish Kodak would bring back the 50-sheet boxes for color film. I currently need to re-pack my film for travel. I can fit 50 sheets into a 10-sheet box, but I'd prefer to travel with factory-sealed boxes and the repacking is a hassle.

[Tobias Key]

I'd be happy with 20 sheet boxes like Fuji comes in.

[unixrevolution]

Tri-X is a fifty-sheet deal. I guess Kodak figures the price tag of a 50-sheet box of portra might be intimidating.

It certainly is to me.

[SamReeves]

A 50 sheet box might run well over $100.

That box of Fomapan looks so much better.

[Drew Wiley]

You're complaining about a hundred bucks for fifty sheets? There's an easy cure for that.
Start shooting 8x10 ... click ...$$....click ...$$....

[Tobias Key]

A 50 sheet box might run well over $100.

That box of Fomapan looks so much better.

At the price I paid for a 10 sheet box in the UK 50 sheets would cost $310!!! We get gouged for £38.50 per box

[Noah A]

A 50 sheet box might run well over $100.

That box of Fomapan looks so much better.

Ten sheets of Portra 160 is $35.95 at B&H, so 50 sheets would be roughly $180 if the per-sheet cost is the same. Fomapan isn't going to do any good if you want color negative film, which is what this thread is about. Kodak does offer B&W 4x5 film in 50 sheet boxes.

I can totally understand concerns about cost, but some photographers are going to order film in large quantities no matter what size the boxes are. My freezer is stocked with 100+ boxes of Portra 160. I routinely take 200-300 sheets on shooting trips. The 10-sheet boxes take up a ton of storage space since I have so many of them. And they need to be re-packed for travel. Imagine carrying 30 boxes on a plane. It would take up way too much space and security would be very curious.

I don't think it would be that much of an extra burden for Kodak to offer both 10- and 50-sheet boxes like they used to. They still have the physical boxes since they still offer their B&W films in the larger box. I don't even care if there is a discount on the larger box. In other words, if the 50-sheet box were to cost 5x what a 10-sheet box costs, that would be fine with me. It's a matter of convenience.