Cheap C41 Film Alert (US)

[justin_smith2]

I was in my local Kroger supermarket (US) this past Tuesday and the

the store brand 35mm C41 film was being sold for $1.00 per roll for

200 & 400 ASA speeds. This is repackaged Ferrania that I have not been

really happy with in the past (grainy, sometimes see a color shift)

but is good enough for general camera testing or snapshooting.

[Matthew Currie]

No Krogers up here in Vermont, unfortunately. A lot of dollar stores also have the Ferrania 200 or some variety of Agfa 200. The Agfa batch I got was bad, probably stored hot. I've had pretty good luck with the Ferrania in terms of sharpness, but the colors were oddly saturated and blocky. It makes everything look a little like plastic toys.

[danny_liao]

If you like experimenting, the $.99 stores carries film for .99 24exp. I recently bought some to try out. Not bad at all just slightly more grain for ASA100 speed film.

[justin_smith2]

Sorry, in my previous post I forgot to mention that the rolls are 36 exposures. Makes for a little better deal :-)

[steven_clark]

Me I just buy the $1.34 12 exp trial rolls of 400UC from wallmart and bracket a bit less.

[larrydressler]

Hey Guys give it a try I also found this deal and got 10 rolls of the 400. The 200 is a bad film but I think they have improved the 400 not as grainy as it was a year ago. Ferrania makes an 800 speed C-41 that is great with deep saturated color. as for the Kodak 12 exp trial rolls I got a few of those but the reds seem to block up.

Larry

[User_502260]

Last weekend I was in Upstate NY for a visit to the Baseball Hall Of Fame in Cooperstown. The area is full of dollar stores. I bought two 24 exp. rolls of Konica-Minolta 200 speed print film and both were fine. The rolls were in date. I had six roll of film processed in an Eckerd drug store. The minilab operator did an excellent job on all six rolls and on some extra reprints. I also shot a 36 exp. roll of Konica Centuria Super 100 which cost fifty cents and a 36 exp. roll of Kodak GA which cost ninety-nine cents. These were from the bargain bins at Unique Photo in Florham Park, NJ. As I left Upstate NY I bought two 24 exp. 4-packs of Eckerd's house brand 200 speed print film. It was short dated but at 8 rolls for $3.49 I couldn't complain. This is Fuji film. I shot a test roll yesterday and it's fine.

 

I have had good experience in the past with the 100 and 200 speed off-brand films made by Konica and Fuji. The off-brand 400 films made by the same companies can be good too but I rate it at 320 just to be safe. I still have 22 36 exp. rolls of the Konica 100 speed print film in my freezer.

[david_m]

Here in Arizona, USA, we have Frys supermarket which must be related to Kroger since its store brand is Kroger and so is the film. A few weeks ago they were selling close dated 4-roll packs of Kroger film for $1.99. Thats 50 cents a roll. There are many stores that sell cheap film. Greenbacks sells Solaris at $1/roll. 99 cents store sells Lucky or Ultimate at 99 cents/roll. I've also seen a film called Samsung at ome one dollar stores. Minolta/Konica film is also $1/roll. I have found all this film to be perfectly good and the prints indistinguishable from regular Kodak film (now made in China too!).

[robert goldstein]

So, what exactly are you trying to tell the world--that you got a good deal on bad film,

and maybe the rest can do the same? I'll pass.

[larrydressler]

Great deals on cheap film....Those who pass a closed box never know the secret it holds. Sometimes you get dirty fingers and sometimes you find the golden ring...<div></div>