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Topic: I found an Oasis in the middle of Sahara (bunch of Ektachrome 64T for very cheap!)
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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God
Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted March 11, 2013 12:42 PM
Guys, what an incredible story I got. But perhaps for you who only involve in film package collecting hobby, you won't bothered with this.
As you may have known that Kodak has recently stopped producing Ektachrome 100D, so this means the films shooting hobby is dying. We can rely only with Fuji (and AGFA?) by slitting their 35mm slide film done by Wittner. This making the price of super 8mm will be very expensive (perhaps $35/each without processing) from what I already thought was expensive.
Some film shooters are still optimistic with the Wittner's move but as I am more film collecting man, I was going to close my book of shooting by stating in this thread: Bye, bye Ektachrome 100d
quote: I am sad too to see disappear, but big LOL to those rush buying for the sake to make a profit.
Now we can see on Ebay people are selling an E100D for $49. Good luck for them but I have a limitation my self that everything beyond $20 is out of my budget and I will shot my home movies with video. I will not die just because I am using video, right?
However just a few days ago, I found in our local Craiglist someone was offering 23 Ektachrome 64T. Yesss....23 cartridge.... !!! however the price is not cheap though, $25/cart!
The original add can still be seen here: http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/pho/3582904987.html
But if you see carefully on the bottom of the page, the add was posted Jan 30, while today is already March 11. So no takers for that long. I was thinking if the films were still available why did not I make an offer?.
So I sent an email and...got a reply. The lady seller wanted to go down to $17/each. Well, although that is already below $20, but since that was just the same price with Dwyane's for a E100D, I just made a random offer....say..$13/each
Two days no reply was received, I just say to my self, all right... I understand her position. But before I made another move today I received a reply say "I can see your offer..."
So here we go now:
I am happy with this purchase so I can secure my shooting for 3 years to go until I really stop making a movie with super 8mm.
Anybody can get the idea when these films were manufactured:
ps: the seller was apparently owning a production house and has once made a movie with super 8mm. They are left over stocks and had been always kept in freezer since then.
A $13/cart in the shortage of E6 films (E64T and E100D) is just like finding an oasis in the middle of Sahara..., right?
-------------------- Winbert
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