Acros 100 4x5 QL discontinued in US?

[Robert Hughes]

Uh...what's Acros?

I can get 4x5 film from a bunch of manufacturers, including several Chinese and Eastern European firms that make perfectly good product. I don't lose any sleep about losing one line or another, be it a yellow, green, white, blue, or plain brown box.

[Eric James]

Uh...including several Chinese and Eastern European firms that make perfectly good product...

In Quickloads

[schafphoto]

Yes I was just photographing an interior today with the last of my Quickloads. Lucky I had them, since it was a digital job and I only took the Cambowide "just in case". Then right in the middle of the shoot the workers upstairs started welding new banisters on the choir loft... and all my strobes started popping because their arc was triggering my slaves... proves there is a first time for everything.

So I asked them for 15 minutes to finish my brackets and shut down the strobes, and man if those QL didn't let me grab a couple of frames of film. Just like when the sunset is going down and you want just one more shot for insurance... jam the Quickload holder in... then just start stabbing film – Acros and Velvia – in the thing and nothing ever moves unlike when you have to insert and extract each individual holder. And it all fit in the Cambowide flight case. No room for holders in there anyway.

-schaf

[Atul Mohidekar]

Few days back I did contact Fuji to urge them to reconsider their decision to stop selling Acros in QuickLoad via Fuji Global (not the US) web site:
https://www.fujifilm.com/mail/form.c...44-59899-54331


// Atul

[Tom Conway]

Sent message to Fuji; I encourage all others on the Forum to do the same.

[Mike1234]

Fuji is like every other corporation. They pay attention to "real world profits"... not whiney babies like us.

[Robert Hughes]

OTOH, you ARE their market. If you can find a contact name at the company who can champion your cause, that will help get your opinions heard. A few years ago, John Pytlak at Kodak almost singlehandedly extended Kodak's Super 8 movie program due to concerns he heard from the community - but he died recently, and we S8 shooters have lost a strong ally in the company.

[Jeffrey Sipress]

Darn. I use that a lot.

I emailed Fuji Japan, and tried to send the same message to Fuji USA, but the webpage was broke and the send button didn't work! I'm losing faith!

[schafphoto]

Let's ask Ilford what snowball's chance in hell there is of getting an Ilfoload, zippy-load or whatever they want to call it, Across wasn't that fabulous a film and I'd rather shoot HP-5 dust free and light weight if I have a chance anyway, since it is already my preferred 5x7 film... Fuji has walked away from the B&W QL shooters, and if they come back it will be until the next bean-counter evaluates the product as not making enough profit to continue. Anyone from Ilford listening? Anyone have a good contact, that's a letter I'm willing to write.

[schafphoto]

Besides we may actually get more than 1 flavor of film from Ilford, 100, 400, Delta? more choice is better... with Fuji, not so much.