Photoblaster prices skyrocketing!

 Wow, not quite 10 years since a new post! Fun to check in and see what is up with Photoblasters these days. 

Google shopping shows quite a few available for sale right now, and prices range from $40 out of box to $180 new in packaging. Wow! 

And Google Shopping shows zero versions of the GoPhoto X-Treme Pix camera. In some ways, this one is perhaps the rarer bird.

Hope you are all having a happy 2023, and happy 'Blasting! I haven't taken out my Photoblaster in a while. Would love to hear any comments on what places would be happy to still develop this film, I know in the past that was a problem. 

GoPhoto Inc is no more?

A quick search  appears to show that GoPhoto Inc. may be gone, at least, their old domain name is gone and parked by a domain host, with no more landing page.

I wonder what happened?

Interestingly enough, Amazon still appears to have the X-Treme Pix camera on sale from GoPhoto for $89.95.

Here was the old product page on the web site, I was able to grab this out of Google's cache:

The Wayback Machine doesn't show a whole lot for GoPhoto, their site is not too functional that way. Too bad.

At least I captured the PDF cut sheet for the camera when I could.

I recall that I discovered this back around February 2009, because I ordered one via Amazon on February 27, 2009. I got it, and saw that it was exactly like the PhotoBlaster. Cool! So I ordered another two on August, 10 2010 via Amazon.com as well, just in case...GoPhoto disappeared. And now they have. I wonder how many were produced, and how many they actually sold?

All very good questions. I may need to contact the President and CEO, Jerry W. Perry to get the skinny. I was able to locate some contact information for him on both LinkedIn and Facebook.