Michael Sweeney Photography

To Be Discontinued…

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Yesterday FujiFilm announced its plans to discontinue its FP-3000B peel apart film. It’s a very popular item amongst the instant film crowd, delivering beautiful tones and performing wonderfully in low light at an affordable price, roughly 90 cents a photo.

Monica's tea kettle, shot on Fuji's FP-3000B instant film. FujiFilm said yesterday it was discontinuing the film "as a result of decreases in world-wide global demand". Photo by Mike Sweeney/©2013
Monica’s tea kettle, shot on Fuji’s FP-3000B instant film. FujiFilm said yesterday it was discontinuing the film “as a result of decreases in world-wide global demand”. Photo by Mike Sweeney/©2013

But apparently it wasn’t popular enough for Fuji. The company cited “decreases in world-wide global demand” for their decision to stop the manufacture of the film. The company did say their instant color film, FP-100C would remain in production.

Last night, I ordered five packs of the film from Amazon. Demand had already driven up the price for 10 exposures by nearly two dollars.

But I didn’t go as far as this guy. If I had, Monica would have flipped:

 

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