Fujifilm announced the first price hike on film of 2025.
Fujifilm, Kodak, and Ilford (Harman) announce film price increases roughly once, sometimes twice a year.
In their announcement (fujifilm.com/ffis/ja/news/…, previously shared by PetaPixel petapixel.com/2025/04/04/f… and DPReview), Fujifilm said they worked on improving their efficiency, but, unfortunately, the increasing price of raw materials still drove the prices up. It’s implied that they won’t be subsidizing their film manufacturing.
As a result, the film prices will go up 21-52% (the higher number applies to reversal films like Velvia and Provia).
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Kosmo Foto just shared price updates from Kodak — some of it is good news!
Stephen writes, “Kodak Alaris has announced a price increase to its range of films and single-use cameras which will take effect on 1 January 2025” (kosmofoto.com/2024/11/koda…)
These announcements happen every year, which makes film photography consumption feel different. In a healthy economy, the force of inflation raises prices of all goods by about 3%, but sellers and retailers do their darndest to hide those increases. Yet, Kodak (and Ilford) tell us exactly how much we could expect to pay more next year.
Of course, the trick is that these price increases are not for the consumer — they are for the retailers and distributors. Unless you’re a motion picture studio, there’s no way to buy film directly from Kodak (see: analog.cafe/comments/up67) — thus, those price fluctuations won’t affect you directly. Some sellers and distributors will eat the price difference or improve their tactics, while others will update the prices significantly.
Just finished collecting film June 2023 price data across international retailers. Looks like the average price has gone up by 3.49% since January.
The worst offenders were Kodak T-Max 100 (+15.29%) and Kodak Ektachrome (+12.86%). T-Max 400 and Tri-X are trailing with just over 12% price hikes since January.
But a few films went down in price considerably; Fujifilm Superia X-Tra 400 now costs 15.06% less — although this may be due to the discontinuation of this particular emulsion and stock clearances. In the following report, I will remove or replace this film with Fujifilm’s presumably rebranded ISO 400 emulsion.
Other films that are still in full production and cost less than six months ago are Kodak UltraMax 400 (-3.30%), Kosmo Foto Mono 100 (-3.32%), and Fujifilm Fujichrome Velvia 50 (-0.93%).
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