Is Fujifilm's NEW C200 Just More Kodak? 

I have been telling folks this from day one. I know someone from China who has told people this Friday 1. You guys, the original post literally said that they were just packing film. It literally said that. No where did it ever say they were coating it. And, the guy I talked to from China, said that this factory has never had any type of coating capability, ever. It’s always been finishing, whether color 35 or medical films. Guys, don’t just jump the gun, actually look at the sources, and if you don’t understand them, ask someone who aspens the language and lives in the same area of the world to translate…

I think this is half the story. My thought is they probably are finishing what was manufactured in the U.S. before they start coating there. When Fuji did coating in the past, it would be huge quantities and only a few times a year. My thought is it was cheaper to finish packaging what film was made in America and they will start coating once they need new film. I don’t expect the formula to change much. Also, plenty of people have done spectrum analysis to show they are slightly different in the greens and blues. Even at Kodak, this was not Gold. It was just close because it was made by Kodak. We’ll see. Come back to my comment in 6-8 months and let’s argue if there’s a noticeable change in the film haha

I bought some Fuji 200 last week at our local Photo shop and it was $2.00 cheaper per roll than Kodak Gold,

It's known that Kodak can make a lot of film, but they have a bottleneck in confectioning... ie stuffing film in canisters. I suspected the same as you when I just saw a bunch of photos of spooling and packaging, but no coating. Coating color film is not easy.

It seems like (based off of the promotional poster) that the rebate markers on the films are also going to get the Fuji "racing stripes" (like original C200 and Superia 400). I'm curious as to whether that's done already in the USA or they do that portion in China.

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Most likely, consumers won’t get any significant price decreases. If Fuji sold us Gold and UltraMax at significantly lower prices than Kodak, it could hurt Kodak’s profits and may threaten Fuji’s access to the film stocks. Most likely, Fuji will just pocket the extra profits from cheaper repackaging costs.

Just as I bought a roll of fujifilm. What a shame, that company lost its face.

Either way, you can’t win. You have to deal with lack of quality or lack of bank balance.

FUJIFILM has long dissembled the coating line, maybe in 2017. And before that they have massively produced many films to be frozen for gradual release until it’s out of stock, according to their own estimation about how film would be fading out in the future. Period. I work for fujifilm. Btw fujifilm is also considering reconstructing the coating line however it requires market demand to be sufficient for that line to be restarted, coz the automation line once initiated makes a huge amount of films way more than today’s demand, that’s the PL they have to consider. And again the machines have been dissembled that’s why they have to refer to Kodak and Ilford for OEM. Simply check the films, there’s no “fujicolor” wording on Kodak made fujifilm film.

I bought one Fujifilm 200; on the edge of the negative is written FUJI 200. But the box says "made in USA".

What about Velvia and Provia 35mm . Can’t find it anywhere 😢

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Heartbreaking, but honestly just holding out for Lucky.

Yes.

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4:33 HAHA I was going to say the same thing. Uncle Sam wants you to outsource production

Fuji will do anything except making another film

I don't think this will be the final thing for Fuji... Let's see in a couple months... What would they do with their Coating Machines? How about 120 film? There a lot of open questions if you ask me.

Is it C200 or just 200? Were they not different films?

I want to start using Instax but I feel like I’ll be in safer hands with Polaroid

It is in fact bad news. Fuji film is outsourcing repackaging. Or is this Chinese firm license holder for the name Fuji Film on filmstock?

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4:03 It’s a superpower in this economy.

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Pronouncing foreign words on camera? LFGGGGGGGGGGG

Digital > film