Kodak 4X5 B&W to be packaged in 10 sheet boxes (only)?

[Wayne]

Is 10 sheets box a way to hide another price increase ?

Yes. That's all it is, IMO. Kodak yet again inadvertantly (or advertantly) trying to force itself out of the market. They can blame the resulting poor sales when nobody wants to spend more money for more cardboard and less film. Perhaps they foolishly think well, people are still buying Ektar and Portra, lets do that with black and white! But there are few if any other options for large format color negatives. They may not know other companies make black and white sheet film...

I just hope Ilford has the sense not to follow suit. I stopped buying Kodak B&W a long time ago.

[Tim Meisburger]

As long as there is going to be a change, why not go back to the old way of 12, 24 and 144?

Gross!

[Alan9940]

Is 10 sheets box a way to hide another price increase ?

Yes. That's all it is, IMO.

IMO, too! It's why I placed an order, yesterday, with B&H for a few 50-sheet boxes of my beloved 4x5 Tri-X. It will never be as cheap, again!

[k_redder]

Is 10 sheets box a way to hide another price increase ?

Yes. That's all it is, IMO. Kodak yet again inadvertantly (or advertantly) trying to force itself out of the market. They can blame the resulting poor sales when nobody wants to spend more money for more cardboard and less film. Perhaps they foolishly think well, people are still buying Ektar and Portra, lets do that with black and white! But there are few if any other options for large format color negatives. They may not know other companies make black and white sheet film...

I just hope Ilford has the sense not to follow suit. I stopped buying Kodak B&W a long time ago.

I stopped using Tmax a while ago because I could no longer bring myself to spend nearly twice the money (over Ilford) for film. These new 10 sheet boxes won't do anything but drive that per sheet price even higher. I've also been trending away from Kodak's darkroom chemistry lately because a lot of their products now only come packaged in larger quantities that are not convenient for my level of usage. Kodak seems to be finding new and exciting ways of driving away business. This should work out well.

[thomas ciulei]

and Kodak announced they wanna bring back Ektachrome in 135 format.
probably with 10 exposures pro roll
haha

they are nuts

[cowanw]

Gross!

[vinny]

They only had one foot remaining to shoot, this is it. As long as it's available, don't complain.

[Wayne]

and Kodak announced they wanna bring back Ektachrome in 135 format.
probably with 10 exposures pro roll
haha

they are nuts

This does me no good unless they also bring back Ilfochrome.

[BrianShaw]

It's a lot better than nothing... wouldn't you agree?

[Sal Santamaura]

This does me no good unless they also bring back Ilfochrome.

I disagree. In my opinion, Ilfochrome's absurdly high contrast and surface gloss are better off gone. Kodak couldn't "bring it back" anyway. What Kodak could bring back are Carousel projectors, enabling the highest, best use of 35mm transparency images. Then: Ektachrome in 120. It could be displayed using these currently available medium format projectors:

http://www.vicom-international.com/H...rojectors.html

It's a lot better than nothing... wouldn't you agree?

I would, but many who know the price of all things and the value of none, take pleasure in knocking Kodak and can't see the advantages of some Kodak products for certain applications don't. They'd rather Bldg. 38 disappeared and Kodak film went with it. Sad.