Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The other day, in an nocturnal emergency, I ran into a local store looking for 120 hp5+...i saw almost no film out in the open (just a couple rolls of consumer colour neg) so I asked the proprietor if she carried any roll film. She led me to a dorm-room fridge; there were a few rolls of tmax 100. That's it. And it was well past the exp date. I hope that means she just sold all her tri-x, fp4+, hp5+, apx 100 etc. that day and was left with the stuff nobody wants. But I get the feeling that she WAS left with the stuff nobody wants, and not because there was a big influx of roll film buyers that day. Jeff On Nov 9, 2004, at 10:45 PM, Feli di Giorgio wrote: > Usually I buy my Tri-X in bulk from places like B&H, but today I > needed a roll of > color slide film. So, down I went to my local store here. > > Arriving at the film counter I noticed the following: > > > The black and white section looked about the same as usual. A broad > selection of Agfa, Ilford, Fuji > and Kodak stocks. > > The amount of stock in the color section was down about 50% from > levels 4-5 months ago. > > The big fridge where they keep the 120 stock was also down 50%. > > > I chatted a little with the sales guy and he had the following to say. > > > - Digital is killing color film; slides and negative. Mostly because > regular consumers > have dumped their 35mm point and shoots for digital compacts. > > - Black and white is holding steady. > > - Sales for 120 color neg and slide are down. > > - 120 B/W sales are down a little, but holding steady. > > > So, there it is. > > Feli > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information