{"id":989,"date":"2022-12-28T00:43:27+01:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T23:43:27+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/?p=989"},"modified":"2023-05-31T01:16:04+01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T00:16:04+00:00","slug":"price-update-for-kentmere-medium-format-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/price-update-for-kentmere-medium-format-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Price update for Kentmere medium-format films"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been some time since the announcement<\/a>; new Kentmere films have arrived in the European shops. My initial speculation about the price was around 6\u20ac for a roll, so it wouldn’t be able to out-price Fomapan films. I was almost<\/em> right – prices are closer to 7\u20ac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

According to my go-to film shop in the EU zone, Fotoimpex.de<\/a>, 120 format Kentmere films are priced at 6.79\u20ac for 100 ASA film, and 6.89\u20ac for 400 ASA film. That’s just slightly less than Ilford’s staples – FP4+ and HP5+ go for 10 euro cents more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As expected, nothing can beat Fomapan prices, those films are available at 4.79\u20ac and 5.10\u20ac, for 100 ASA and 400 ASA films, respectively. What’s interesting, Rollei Retro films are also slightly cheaper than Kentmere films – both 80S and 400S go for 6.5\u20ac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medium format Kentmere films are a welcome addition, but expectedly not the cheapest option out there. Potential availability in non-EU shops could mean Kentmere films might have an edge over Fomapan films, but for us Europeans, Foma continues to be a brand to go for cheap, day-to-day black & white film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disclaimer<\/strong>: prices are correct on the date of writing of the article only!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been some time since the announcement; new Kentmere films have arrived in the European shops. My initial speculation about the price was around 6\u20ac for a roll, so it wouldn’t be able to out-price Fomapan films. I was almost right – prices are closer …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"venue_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,111,27],"tags":[16,21],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-news","category-photography-gear","tag-black-and-white-film","tag-film-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}