Where I’m from some films have nearly doubled in price such as Portra, Ektar, and even Ultramax. […] almost fifty pounds depending where you buy it from. Surely the increase in output should be substantial enough to drives sales to the extent that it become more profitable for them over a set payback period rather than just offsetting the risk straight to the consumer. The price increases are irritating and rather inordinate but I think in a few years the prices will decrease.The announcement comes on the back of a drought of Kodak films, especially in Europe, with popular emulsions such as the Portra films and Colorplus 200 unavailable for weeks or even months at a time in the last year.This seems crazy?! I absolutely will not be buying any of those anymore. Many thanks
Otherwise, they could be the hand at their customers’ throats rather than a middle man distributor.
While there are price increases of up to 40%, for most products the rise is somewhere between 10-20%.
I am a retailer of Kodak products in the UK and the price increases are geninely quite significant – almost a 50% increase for Colour Plus (going from £1.92 per roll wholesale to £2.96 per roll wholesale) and a 25% increase for Portra (going from £24.00 per box (160) wholesale to £30.00 per box wholesale). Los Angeles has parking lots just for people living in their cars.
Therefore we need to raise the price of film and apply the price change for all orders shipped from the first of January 2020, this action will ensure the longevity of our ability to supply the market with film products.”“Due to the size of the increase and the high level of back orders we have accumulated in 2019 we need to take the unusual step of cancelling all film and OTUC (One Time Use Cameras )back orders at the time of the price increase being applied. Thread starter FishyFish; Start date Nov 29, 2019; FishyFish.
I’m not sure if this is a formatting issue or something to do with web browser compatibility but I thought I’d post to let you know. Or is it just like everything else that is getting too expensive? Kodak Alaris’s film supply comes from a single dedicated supplier, we are beholden to this supplier for all the film we sell across the world. I can’t find the press release anywhere. This price increase is far bigger than Kodak Alaris can absorb and we are forced to announce a price increase will be made all of our customers across the world from the 1st January 2020. Is it silver, gelatin, nitric acid, or?“film production has been limited by a finite supply of one of the key components used to produce film.”To bad Kodak demolished all but one of its B&W film coating lines more than a decade ago. Reading between the lines Kodak don’t expect this film “boom” to last through late 2020-2021. Goodluck trying bigger sales for bigger prices =\Hi Aiden – it is linked, down the page.The price increase will take effect on 1 January 2020. Hipster trends change all the time and they’re cashing in while they can. Hope you get the problem fixed soon. Also with Kodak increasing the prices of their film products from January, the Portra could get a little bit expensive and out of my budget. The interest in analogue photography (much like vinyl resurgence) is continuing to grow and Kodak are investing in more machines to keep up with demand (why on earth do you think they would invest so much money in new machinery if they thought the trend wouldn’t continue?) Nevertheless, Portra 400 does […]Hmh. The text in your article seem to be running off the screen in Internet explorer. Our supplier has recognised the increased demand for film and started to initiate plans to increase their volume capacity. Kodak Alaris states:just perfect news for BLACK FRIDAY to make it even darker…Normally with increasing sales and higher production volumes the price should decrease… Am I wrong?I am curious which component is the limiting factor. The reason Kodak has given for the price rise is the increase in demand for film. A large ongoing financial investment has been made to increase production capacity but unfortunately the benefits of this investment will not be realised until much later in 2020, with some additional benefits being delivered in 2021.”If tri-x in 35mm goes over 8 euros then I’m done with it.
I think that the Kodak name is now limited to distribution of products produced by others, even if to Kodak’s specification, meaning that Kodak is no longer really in control of its business. There is no indication yet how large the increase will be.“Kodak Alaris’s film supply comes from a single dedicated supplier, we are beholden to this supplier for all the film we sell across the world. I’m pretty disappointed by this announcement – it feels like bad business.Yea, this seems like the wrong response to increased demand for film. There is no indication yet how large the increase will be. Because of the increase in demand they are having to invest in new machinery to increase capacity and they are offsetting that cost by increasing the retail prices of their films.As a distributor of Kodak film we have just received an email from Kodak Alaris informing us about significant price changes across all Kodak films starting January 1st 2020.