Kodak 320TXP 10 x 8 late dated special price!

I misread this post - a brilliant deal £30 a box about right for 10 sheets of short dated 10x8 film, then saw saving etc.

It did prompt me to just go and buy 100 sheets of 10x8 film for £279 from my current suplier. there's a massive difference between £2.79 a sheet and £14.49 a sheet.

Just adding some realism here.

Ian
 
This is more a comment about Kodak's pricing even with £30 off it's still around 2.5 time more expensive than HP5.

Ian
 
Ian Grant said:
This is more a comment about Kodak's pricing even with £30 off it's still around 2.5 time more expensive than HP5.

Ian
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Holy Lucifer on a pogo stick ... Kodak appear not to be inhabiting the same world as the rest of us. All due respect to you guys as retailers, you don't call the film pricing shots, and that doesn't reflect on you guys at all - but I knew there was a reason I didn't use Kodak B&W film.
 
Very disppointed with the comments on here. Yes, kodak is more expensive but we are about offering a choice. Until we took these films on, it was almost impossible to get large format Kodak films in the UK. Lots of places listed them but no one had them until now.
We stock Kodak, Ilford, Adox and Shanghai in large format, as in actually have them on the shelf. prices are wildly different but if you want to buy Kodak film and are happy to pay for it, then why shouldnt you?
If you start to remove the choice then you will remove the market.........
 
As a manufacturer and retailer (in a different sector) I fully understand offering choice, it's a great thing, and as I pointed out it's not your fault in the slightest how a company chooses to price its products. I've already been a customer of yours and have recommended you guys on my YouTube channel in the past, however I reserve the right to pass an opinion that Kodak film at that price is extremely poor value.
 
Nikki my comments weren't meant to be against you and your company. Realism is other suppliers think like I do that Kodak are pricing themselves out of the market and not just in the UK, I had this discuassion just two weeks ago with my supplier, a company I first used around 1976/7 actually buying an LF camera and enlarger from them and then not use=ing them again until around 5 or 6 years ago :D

If the price differential was moderate then there's not reallyan issue but at over two and a half times the price of Ilford and slightly more than than that for Adox it's a no brainer. Ishoot 10x8 and no way could I even contenance thinking of buying their 10x8 B&W sheet film any longer, and I loved Tmax 100 &400.

A different reality is those of us on this webite are rather savvy on film prices, quality, and final choices when we are buying film particularly at the price per sheet of Kodak film.

I've said many times I preferred Agfa APX100 (original), since around 1987, when that went I went to Tmax 100 which had been my back up film. However living & travelling abroad Kodak B&W films were near impossible to find, Ilford and Foma were everywhere, so I switched back after a 20 year bascence to Ilford with Foma as my back up.

Kodak by now must have a significantly smaller share of the B&W film market than Ilford who had over 70% 15 years ago and that's increased, and their share must now be well below Foma as well.

Unfortunately Nikki your post just highlighted the huge price differential, if people want Tri-X 320 they should buy all you have onthe shelf.

Ian

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