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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Hillary K. Grigonis

Did Kodak just monopolize the color film market for photographers?

Kodak film boxes are displayed in a store in New York, on Friday, May 4, 2007.

Kodak will no longer sell longer bulk rolls of film outside of motion picture productions, a move that could impact the cost of color film emulsions like Ektachrome for stills photographers.

Buying large reels of film meant for video, and respooling them to smaller 36 exposure rolls for stills cameras, was a popular workaround to help drop the rising costs of film, used both by enterprising photographers and resellers. However, Kodak recently shared that it is no longer selling longer bulk rolls outside of film productions.

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