Special order Eastman Double-X in 4x5 sheets.

[StoneNYC]

Stone, thank you for your well thought out and truly enlightening post. But I want to ask you this....If Ilford ceased to bring out any new products for say, 5-10 years, do you *honestly* think they would be destined to die?

What AuditorOne said.

[smithdoor]

I can see why you like Double-X would like it too. It is just the price if I did photography for a living I would buy that film.
Most of what a shot was TRI X and HP 5. If I had the money today I would buy it even at $300.00 I had big lost on 911.

Godo luck
Dave

Honestly I dislike TXP


Also, have you shot Eastman Double-X? Doubtful

[jnantz]

i would have bought some of this film even at 300/ box seeing i know it stores well only if i could have afforded to buy at least 500 sheets of it
unfortunately 300 / 50sheets is out of my league and i can't afford to pawn anything i own, or give loved ones coal for the holidays.

its good to see the new kodak or alaris or the cine film division willing to take risks, even thought they pass the higher price to the consumer. the cousin of this cine film i am guessing is the rolls of plus x aero i am fond of shooting .. thinnish base but after a few exposures + processing runs there are no kinks to iron out.

unfortunately 3000$ of film is out of my budget, and i wouldn't want to buy less because id rather shoot 1 film for a long time
than switch to the flavor of the month next month.

hope you have enough people to make the order go through.

[StoneNYC]

i would have bought some of this film even at 300/ box seeing i know it stores well only if i could have afforded to buy at least 500 sheets of it
unfortunately 300 / 50sheets is out of my league and i can't afford to pawn anything i own, or give loved ones coal for the holidays.

its good to see the new kodak or alaris or the cine film division willing to take risks, even thought they pass the higher price to the consumer. the cousin of this cine film i am guessing is the rolls of plus x aero i am fond of shooting .. thinnish base but after a few exposures + processing runs there are no kinks to iron out.

unfortunately 3000$ of film is out of my budget, and i wouldn't want to buy less because id rather shoot 1 film for a long time
than switch to the flavor of the month next month.

hope you have enough people to make the order go through.

I replied to your cut-and-paste from APUG but essentially I agree with you that it's a high price for a limited run film, however I'm still putting in my $300 as I agreed to. I do wish they had asked for a different amount as in perhaps maybe if they had asked and suggested hey if you guys can come up with double the order that you've already presented us, we can lower the price to $200 or $150 something like that would have been a lot more of compromise then simply upping the price so high, but I'm really glad they're willing to do it, it shows a good sign for Kodak for the future, and like I said I'm going to at least put in for one box. I did the same thing for those who wanted to order 70 mm from Ilfords ULF run, I really didn't want four boxes of 70 mm, but I knew that if I didn't order one more of each type, the run wouldn't actually happen, so I took one for the team, for the entire group of 70 mm ordering people just so that it could happen it cost a lot but it was worth it to see a company produce something new, and hopefully next year now that the tooling has been done for the perforations etc. maybe the price will be much lower, and the same could be said for this special run of Kodak, if this happens once they won't have to do the research and the next run will be hopefully a lot cheaper, so I would like this to still happen so that Kodak now has it under their belt and they don't have to take under any more testing they can just do it...

[koh303]

Honestly I dislike TXP

Also, have you shot Eastman Double-X? Doubtful

A few posts ago you claimed there was no TriX in 4X5...

[jnantz]

if i were rolling in dough i wouldnt think twice about 300$ for a test box...
but i dont have that large a disposable income ...
maybe next time

[AuditorOne]

I hope this works (fingers crossed.) I have some TXP in the freezer (not Tri-X) and would love to compare the two films.

[AuditorOne]

I suspect the thinner base will work all right in the Grafmatic septums.

[StoneNYC]

A few posts ago you claimed there was no TriX in 4X5...

There is no 400TX in 4x5... Only TXP (Tri-X Pan Professional ASA320)... Two distinctly different films. Though I've only shot TXP in 120 but still gives you a sense of it.

[StoneNYC]

I suspect the thinner base will work all right in the Grafmatic septums.

That's true, good plan.