Ask B&H. Just give them a call and ask the film department.
Or ask your local film supply company, whichever one the pros use to buy their film.
From eavesdropping on other lists like Editorial Photographers, StockPhoto and NPPA, I'd say film is dead except for the push-here-dummy disposable market, and with the advent of disposable digitals, that market will dry up too. Without those big markets the cost effectivness of film will plummet and that will be the end of it for commercial and stock. Already the major stock houses are not accepting film, and have more or less settled on a adigital file size.
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For what it's worth - Kodak is quitting the APS camera business. Also a while back someone on PF pointed out that Nat.Geo. did it's first all digital story - the one on aviation.
RE education, my best guess is that all but Fine Art departments will abandon conventional film as soon as they can and before Kodak quits making pro films. The art schools will continue to straddle the fence for a while and then all but a few - 10% ? - will bail out.
Disposable digital cameras will finish off the film industry within five years. The plants will be shipped to developing nations and continue to provide materials for the hold-outs still doing B/W in the art market.
How long can film be kept frozen before it's not useable?
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