Ah, to live in those times!
Back in the 80s our family would buy 100 feet of black and white 35mm film and put it in a bulk loader like this.
You’d load an empty 35mm canister and crank on 24 exposures worth of film. You’d shoot your pictures, and then come home and develop the film. This was really the only way we could afford photography. Photo paper was very expensive though, so I had many more negatives than prints.
I do this with Kodak 500T. Slightly more affordable, but still not really.
I had no idea this was a thing!
If my maths works, you could order 200 feet of film for under 200€, which works out to 0.625 euro cents per exposure, round up to ten cents including losses… that’s not too bad… hassle notwithstanding.
Could probably get it cheaper as well, and that’s way overestimating losses.
Wherever from? (Also where are you that uses Euros but also feet?)
I looked up Kodak’s pricing because I knew they do sell large spools (though I imagine every film manufacturer does), so they listed it in feet, but I checked the EU pricing, which was given in euros!
Keep in mind that 1 Cent in 1940 equals the buying power of about 23 Cents today. While this still does not work out for today’s film prices it get’s a lot closer…
36 exposures × 0.23$ = 8.somthing$ per roll, which is prettyy much cost of a roll of b&w film in a multipack on amazon today.
