wonders how the market for professional film is holding up in the US and Europe, particularly in 120 and 4x5.
A local lab that sells a lot of film and does quite a bit of professional (wedding/portrait) printing now has regular sales of outdated medium format film. I just bought all their pro-packs of Plus-X 120 with a June 04 date at about $1.60 a roll. They used to have far less expired film for sale. They have a lot of 220 color neg film that's outdated, probably because the photographers who used to buy it now do digital.
Of course this is just one lab, but I hear similar stories around the area.
Jeff Spirer
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