Good luck finding film nowadays

[darrenvox]

I just started to realize that anyone in this day in age who wants to find camera film Good luck! every store that i went into yesterday and asked if they had film said no. About 10 years ago they would have asked me what ISO, what amount of exposures etc, instead now they just look at you weird as if you arent using the digital type card cameras. its good that the place i get them developed still has quite alot. But no one else does...

In a day and age when film was king and no one/or only a few had digital back then, now people are 100% digital and ony 1% film. I do of course have a snap and shoot digital camera but am trying to start out with film in my camera instead of cards.

So i wish anyone who wants to try a career or try doing alot of film shots luck because getting film is so scarce so i wish you luck!

Go FILM!!!

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[bruce282]

Go here, everything you need.

Freestyle Photographic Supplies - Traditional Black & White Film, Paper, Chemicals, Holgas and ULF

Bruce

[Railphotog]

Much of the non photographer public doesn't seem to know this. I follow a local online ad site, and regularly see old film cameras offered for sale at ridiculous prices. Just last week someone was offering a Canon EOS Elan film camera and a few items, and was asking $650.00 for the lot! Theres a current ad offering a 28 year old Canon AE-1 for $150.00. I guess they assume their film cameras still have retained their value after all these years.

[Tomasko]

Film is pretty much dead for masses I'm afraid and it's quite understandable... Not everyone can afford the whole process of buying a film, developing etc.

[Bitter Jeweler]

but am trying to start out with film in my camera instead of cards.

This day and age, people learn faster with digital, THEN go back to film.
Learning with film is slow, and more expensive.
Unless you take detailed notes for every shot, you will have a hard time learning why a shot didn't work well, when digital has EXIF info always available to you, with no extra work.

[Helen B]

We use large format reversal and instant film commercially and even though we are in New York (B&H, Adorama and Calumet etc) we keep plenty of film in the fridge, particularly the 4x5 Fuji Instant because that is the most likely to be discontinued at any time. It's also getting more difficult to find a lab that gives really consistent results with the reversal film (we use Ektachrome 100G, by the way). Maybe surprisingly, we aren't alone in still using large format commercially. For us it isn't significantly different from digital in cost or overall shoot time. (To give perspective, we take between ten normal shots a day, to two or three normal cover shots, to three days for a complex cover shot.) Post-processing time and pre-print time can actually be shorter with film, believe it or not.

I use film for almost all of my personal work, albeit with digital post processing and printing.

[Buckster]

I just started to realize that anyone in this day in age who wants to find camera film Good luck! every store that i went into yesterday and asked if they had film said no.

Where are you, that you can't find film?

I never have any problem finding film, including medium format, and I travel a lot.

its good that the place i get them developed still has quite alot. But no one else does...

Wait... You just said "EVERY STORE"...? So your complaint is that it's not EVERYWHERE, not that it isn't ANYWHERE and can't be found? Seriously?

Hey, hang onto something while I deliver this bit of bad news you might not be in on yet: Vinyl records are no longer being sold everywhere! More shock: Neither are VHS tapes! Better sit down for this next one: They're no longer making new episodes of "I Love Lucy"!

I know... Crazy, huh?

In a day and age when film was king and no one/or only a few had digital back then, now people are 100% digital and ony 1% film.

Ummm... Math. Yeah..., n/m.

I do of course have a snap and shoot digital camera but am trying to start out with film in my camera instead of cards.

Shouldn't be a problem, since you know you can get it where you have it developed...

So i wish anyone who wants to try a career or try doing alot of film shots luck because getting film is so scarce so i wish you luck!

This is just getting ridiculous. Sorry, but it is.

Go FILM!!!

Woo hoo!

[ann]

Well vinyl is still being made and sold, film is still being made and sold. On every street corner and drugstore. NO, but it is out there. As it is a sunday i can't buy any locally, however, tomorrow I can find at least 6 places to buy film, and if i am really needy, at least 6 places if not more on line.

[compur]

I live near Freestyle. They still have a few rolls there.

[Orrin]

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Freestyle Photographic Supplies - Traditional Black & White Film, Paper, Chemicals, Holgas and ULF

Bruce

I still get Fuji 400H from B&H and Amazon (Freestyle is out of stock). There is still a small selection of consumer film at my local Walmart and Walgreens.

[earthmanbuck]

Man, have you heard of a place called online? You can buy pretty well anything on the internet, and in fact there are some good deals to be had on film (and film cameras, for that matter) if you just spend the time looking.

Also, while most corner stores might not carry film anymore, photography places (obviously) still do, and even most big department stores.

[ChevyBaby]

Film is in ANY camera shop I ever go in and I always find it in chemists too.....
The only problem I ever encounter is that nowhere develops black and white film but luckily I am so elite that I can go in a dark room and do that myself, for cheaper.

[ghache]

i bought 150 rolls of 35mm on kijiji for 40$.

camera are ALL OVER ebay.

[2WheelPhoto]

OP, where do you live that film is hard to find?

[starkimageries]

www.lomography.com

go to the 'shop' and checkout the films.. 35 mm and 120's available b&w, colored, and some other extras.

have a good one!