Lowest price right now, normally sells for $35-40/roll
Good quality low grain film for 35mm film cameras, great for portraits as it has pleasing skin tone reproduction
Portra 800 - 35mm Film
Daylight-Balanced Color Negative Film
ISO 800
Very Fine Grain, VISION Film Technology
Medium Color Saturation, Low Contrast
Accurate Color and Neutral Skin Tones
High Sharpness and Fine Edge Detail
T-GRAIN Emulsion, Ideal for Scanning
Yeah Portra is good but not cheap
More affordable films like Kodak Gold 200 can be found for $15 and Ultramax/Fuji 400 sometimes for $17, dev+scan for another $17 to get under $1/photo
Same with my experience.
Film is getting way too expensive for a part time hobbyist like myself. I still have some films and a couple of film camera but I would wait till I feel like really getting outside and get some bangger photos, and then wait till I go to Vietnam to have the films developed and scanned. I go there regularly (2-3 times a year) anyways.
i think not even really about the money anymore, just the time.
im half considering selling off all my fp100 peel apart as i 100% dont have the time/effort to stuff around with that format anymore.
I used to shoot in that format. I saw Emily Soto shooting and I decided I had to get one for myself. Couple months later Fuji stopped making the film and now price is over the moon.
I agree with you on the time and the effort it would take to shoot film. I guess the older I get, the less available time I have for shooting films. It's a luxury that I sadly cannot afford like in the past.
over the moon
Not wrong there… I sold 3 totally expired, room temp stored packs for something like $100 ea less eBay fees, wonder how much I could get for my last 3, and a pack of fp3000
@Jimothy Wongingtons: Have a look on eBay
A store in Japan is selling 30 packs brand new for 10 grand exclude shipping + fees
@trantonz: To be fair I guess they did go to effort of temp controllled storage haha but yeah… dang that’s a lot of money for arguably a pretty soso niche format.
Damn hey by the time it’s dev and scanned would be pushing like $40 a roll. My hit rate on keepers back in the day would only be like 3-5 shots out of a roll. I do love portra though (prefer the 400)