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Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:51 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Sean Lewis
I've just managed to get back home safely on this here Friday the 13th, traveling from Bordeaux since 2.30am without a hitch. Six miles from home I get a phone call from a friend who runs the Bognor Sussex camera shop with the rather distressing news that Fuji are discontinuing the production of Velvia. The last shipment is in November apparently, and I'm flipping pissed off about it!!!! :@

Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 5:09 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by dave_whatever
I'd wait to hear that from a more concrete source personally. I've lost count of the number of times velvia has been announced as "discontinued" on various forums.

Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:03 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Sean Lewis
I do hope you're right Dave, this was in an email from Fuji to Sussex Cameras. See what pans out in the next few days.

Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:22 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by George Hart
That's a pretty authoritative source, though happily there's nothing on APUG so far…

Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:27 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by dave_whatever
Its unlikey that any regional shop deals directly with Fuji though, more likely they deal with "fuji uk" which is just an importer/distributor.

Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 8:56 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Charles Twist
Time to buy stocks in freezer manufacturers again....
Best regards,
Charles

Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 8:49 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Carol Bullock
Time to buy another freezer...
Cheers,
Carol

Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:48 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Thingy
Time to buy another house big enough to house another freezer. :lol:

Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:04 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Sean Lewis
Time to make your own. So far, I've cut out 5x4" oblongs from 4 pint plastic milk bottles and dipped them in various coloured food dyes and egg white. No luck yet though! :(

Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:15 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Thingy
Sean Lewis wrote:Time to make your own. So far, I've cut out 5x4" oblongs from 4 pint plastic milk bottles and dipped them in various coloured food dyes and egg white. No luck yet though! :(
Have you thought of buying Fuji?

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Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:18 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Andrew Plume
I would find this very surprising, film wise that is not the appearance of said 'mountain', given the past sale results for this film, after all, it's always seemed to me to be an 'over popular film' with plenty of serious folks promoting it's use and abilities and it very much has it's followers on here

personally, it's way too rich and saturated for my taste

andrew

Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 4:49 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by dave_whatever

Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:48 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Paul Dunning
:(

Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:36 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Glenn Haworth
Oh well, guess I'll be saving some money not buying any E6 film or chemicals after I've run out...

Re: Friday 13th from HELL!!!!!

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:22 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by dave_whatever
Seems there's a good chance it might be Fuji UK talking out of their arse.......watch this space.