Charlotte Makes Photos

Gosh, does five years ever pass quickly!

While taking this walk doesn’t quite feel like yesterday, it also doesn’t feel like too long ago. Just another way that being a woman of a certain age feels like being a woman of a certain age I suppose.

I remember purchasing this roll of Fuji Industrial 100 from a seller in the UK. It had only been a few months that I was back to using film and the Beanie-6×7-and-Portra-400 crowd on the internet were somewhat enamoured with the stock. Mostly because it was supposed to be inexpensive.

Which would make sense, since it was rebadged Fujicolor 100, their regular consumer colour film. Of course, as Fuji’s films of any type had already begun getting scarce by then, and the promise of inexpensive colour was joining it.

Along with most of Fuji’s films, I would very much like to use them again, but since the company famously runs cold to manufacturing its films, I am left to eBay sellers, from whom bricks that expired a decade ago are available for about $200 Canadian, or $20 per roll, plus shipping and perhaps tariffs.

By the time I would be able to load a roll of this expired film, it could cost much more than any fresh consumer colour (i.e. Kodak Gold, ColorPlus, ProImage, Ultramax) and even approach some professional films (i.e. Ektar, Portra 160).

At that price, some things are better left in the past.

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