Kodak Alaris has announced a price increase to its range of films and single-use cameras which will take effect on 1 January 2025.
In contrast to previous price increases, the majority of price increases will under 10%, with most falling between 5% and 8%.
However a few films will see larger rises, and some will see sizeable price reductions.
Kosmo Foto has seen the new price increase from a European distributor which shows prices of consumer colour films such as ColorPlus, UltraMax and Gold rising by around 8%, including for multi-packs of two and three rolls.
Professional films, such as the Portra range of colour negative films, appear to be increasing by just 5%.
The biggest increase is to Gold 200 120 film – which was released in March 2022 – which is rising by 30% for a five-pack. However, this film was heavily discounted a year ago so the price rise will likely bring it back to its pre-reduction price.
Kodak Ektar 120, however, is falling in price by 8%.
The most drastic reduction, however, is for 35mm Tri-X black-and-white film. A 24-frame roll is falling by 27% and a 36-frame roll is falling by 21%. This is the second price reduction Tri-X has seen in the last year.
Both T-Max and Tri-X 120 films are rising, with the price of T-Max 100 and Tri-X rising by more than 20%.
Film shooters should note that the price rises are wholesale increases, and retail price rises may not always reflect these changes.
The prices rises come after Eastman Kodak, the makers of Kodak-branded photographic films, announced that it was pausing film production during November in order to make improvements to the film manufacturing plant.
Stocks of film, however, are not expected to be affected because production was increased in the past few months to maintain supply.
Last year, Eastman Kodak said it was committed to maintaining film production as long as there was demand from photographers and the movie industry.
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What is the source on this? I cannot find any press release from Alaris themselves
Direct from a distributor who is anonymous. All checked with Alaris. They don’t press release this stuff.
I feel like this is happening almost every start of the year now. I will continue to support but it makes it so hard to shoot more like I would love to.