The Growing Global Film Price Divide: Film Price Report Q3 2026 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇭🇰🇪🇺

Whether shooting film got more expensive for you this year will likely depend on where you live.

In Hong Kong, film became 1% cheaper — but in Europe and Canada, it is now 6% more expensive.

Several Kodak film stocks have changed their names, and some price fluctuations are evident — but not in the way you may have expected.

In this year’s second ✉️ Film Price Report, I’ll list Kodak (and non-Kodak) films that actually got cheaper, note films to avoid, and discuss the newly-discovered discrepancies in film prices across countries and regions.

In this report: Film prices up +2.5% compared to January 2026. Best deals. Worst deals. Did Kodak drop its film prices? The global film price divide. Support this blog & get premium features with GOLD memberships!

✪ Note: I renamed the app that tracks film prices and collects all the data this article is based on from Film Price Trends to Film Price Watch.

Film prices up +2.5% compared to January 2026.

On average, prices across 37 tracked film products rose 2.5% compared to January this year.

A healthy annual inflation rate is around 3%. No inflation or negative inflation may actually cause wages to stagnate or decline — we don’t want that any more than we want rates higher than 3%.

This is why a look at film prices in the 1990s may feel as if we had it easy then, but the reality is that our wages were also lower. So a roll of Kodak Gold 100 (24exp.) that sold for $4.60 back then would be valued at $11.40 today, once inflation is accounted for. But the same class of film with 12 more frames — Kodak Gold 200, 36exp. — averages $10.34 in 2026, which is a significantly better deal.

The above 2.5% inflation number is just for the last six months, but the price of film in the six months before stayed the same; that is, in general, film prices are stable in 2026. They are on par with or lower than a healthy inflation rate.

In fact, in countries like the US, where inflation hit 4% in 2025, film is one of the most stable and best-priced goods right now.

Best deals.

These are the films that got cheaper over the past six months:

Kodak Ektapan (T-Max) 400 — 4.9% cheaper

Ilford Delta Professional 3200 — 3.5% cheaper

Kodak UltraMax 400 — 2.6% cheaper

Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 — 2.5% cheaper

Lomography Lomochrome Purple — 2.5% cheaper

Harman Phoenix 200 — 2.2% cheaper

Please note that these price decreases are calculated by averaging data across 13 major stores. Your shop may have different pricing.

Check Film Price Watch to see how your shop’s prices compare with global and regional averages for any of the 37 tracked films.

Worst deals.

You may want to double-check the prices of these films at your shop, as they have become significantly more expensive in the past six months:

Kodak Kodacolor (ColorPlus) 200 — 10.5% more expensive

Ilford XP2 Super 400 — 10.4% more expensive

Ilford FP4 Plus 125 — 9.2% more expensive

Kentmere Pan 200 — 8.9% more expensive

Lomography Lomochrome Metropolis — 7.8% more expensive

Ilford HP5 Plus 400 — 7.6% more expensive

Please note that these price changes are calculated by averaging data across 13 major stores. Your shop may have different pricing.

Check Film Price Watch to see how your shop’s prices compare with global and regional averages for any of the 37 tracked films.

Did Kodak drop its film prices?