The news file for analog photography: emulsions discontinued or reissued, price changes, lab openings and closures, camera manufacturers restarting production, and supply problems affecting chemistry. Short, dated entries with sourcing. For shooters who need to know before a favorite stock disappears from shelves.
The news file for analog photography: emulsions discontinued or reissued, price changes, lab openings and closures, camera manufacturers restarting production, and supply problems affecting chemistry. Short, dated entries with sourcing. For shooters who need to know before a favorite stock disappears from shelves.
From Kodachrome's announced end in June 2009 to new cameras and new emulsions shipping in 2026, the film revival was not a mood — it was a sequence of datable bets by companies everyone assumed had given up.
The expired film trade runs on three variables — storage, emulsion chemistry and whether anyone can still process the roll — and most asking prices quietly ignore all three.
Film shortages are not accidents: coating runs come in batches, allocations ration them, and resellers price the gap — here is how the pipeline works and how to buy through it.
Labs rarely die from one bad year — they die when aging machines, thinning walk-in volume and rising fixed costs arrive together, while the survivors stay busy with work minilabs were never built for.
The spring 2026 scorecard of newly made film cameras: four makers ship, one startup slips to Q3, and the biggest names in photography still build nothing.
Lomography shipped LomoChrome Classicolor in 110 format plus a preloaded Simple Use Camera in March 2026, giving its October 2025 emulsion a second and third life in one move.
HARMAN Switch Azure 125 landed March 5, 2026 — an ISO 125 color negative that swaps hues mid-spectrum, and the fourth color emulsion from a factory that never made color film before 2023.
Fujifilm's only new analog product of early 2026 is an instax hybrid camera, while the stills film lineup entered another year unchanged — no returns, no additions, no apologies beyond supply.
Kodak Alaris increases effective February 1, 2026 add 1 to 39 percent across its distributed films, with 120 pro packs hit hardest and silver costs officially blamed.
Retail film prices have outrun inflation since 2021 because every layer between the coating plant and the shop shelf repriced at once — here is how to read the shelf instead of guessing.