film stock prices- where to find them?

Sam Frazier · March 22, 2005

I think I'm missing something very obvious, but I've been all over Kodak's and Fuji's sites and can't find a damn price list for their stocks. Google etc searches never lead me in the right direction and I can't find anything on this site from my searches here either. The closest thing I've tracked down are places that say to call for prices.

I'd really like to compare the costs of various stocks and check the requirements for educational discounts, can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks for any help!

Adam Frisch FSF · March 22, 2005

That's because the prices aren't really set. Sure, there's a recommended price somewhere, but nobody pays book prices anyway - there are a lot of discounts and rebates to be had.

Generally I can tell you that Fuji is slightly cheaper than Kodak and Kodaks new Vision 2 stocks are slightly more expensive than the older Vision stocks. Also low speed film is cheaper than high speed film as a general rule. Cheapest I could find when I searched a couple of years ago was Fuji's F125T which i got for a really good price for some music video we did.

Sam Frazier · March 22, 2005

Thanks for that, it explains things a bit. But, the weird thing is I can't find any prices online. I've never come across that before. It's almost like film is an old medium so you have to do business the old way, call (rather than online). Still, that can't be right.

Don't suppose you could give me a link to a place that sells kodak, better still one that might list prices or detail some discounts, could you?

jasarsenault · March 22, 2005

I always call. You can give them the stock number and quantity and they can tell you a price including tax. Very quick, very easy.

Jason

Dominic Case · March 22, 2005

It's almost like film is an old medium so you have to do business the old way, call (rather than online). Still, that can't be right.

I bet you could have called your Kodak and Fuji reps and got answers from them (and possibly some useful advice on which stock to use, whether it''s available locally or it's an overnight or longer wait) in much less time than it has taken you to go through this process.

For complex reasons I won't comment on, prices might vary from one country to another, and so the internet actually is a bad way to sell stuff like rawstock.

Anyway, what's wrong with interacting with a humanbeing - even if they work for Kodak or Fuji :rolleyes: . You won't get far in filmmaking if you can't pick up the phone.

Sam Frazier · March 23, 2005

Thanks for the help y'all. Sure, I can pick up a phone and do all that, but unfortunately filmmaking isn't my day job and it's hard to squeeze that sort of thing in during the day. So research is something I do at night mostly.

Guess I just find it odd that film stock seems to be the only thing that doesn't have prices listed online. Even buying a new car, which I consider a very one on one matter with a salesman, has lots of info online.

Oh well, these days using film (as opposed to digital) seems to be a different thing to do, so I'll just have to approach it differently.

Thanks again for the help!

J. Anthony Gonzales · March 23, 2005

Kodak no longer has list pricing on their site (or at least where I can find it). They updated their catalog quick reference but no pricing on the sheets.

Check out Film Emporium at www.filmemporium.com.

They have pricing from factory fresh stock to short ends. The factory fresh prices are pretty much in par with Kodak list pricing minus about 10% or so.

John G.