Favourite "Cheap" 35mm Colour Negative Film?

[tbhv55]

My local photo store has had Agfa Vista Plus stocked for quite awhile but at $13 CAD a roll, it seemed pretty pricey to me.

Something doesn't look right with this. Here, in the UK, Poundland (our equivalent of a Dollar Store) sells a 24-roll of Agfa Vista Plus 200 for £1 (of course! 😉), and that's currently $1.645 CAD. Maybe your quoted price is for a 36-roll, but that's not going to account for an eight-fold price difference. 😱

Perhaps it's worth checking, to see if they made a... 'mistake' in their pricing? 🙄

 

[telenous]

Fuji Color 200 is technically excellent (small grain, accurate colour) and at approx. €2.50 hard to beat. Fuji Superia 200 is perhaps even better but a little costlier. Kodak Gold 200 is grainier and warmer. If you like Kodak's colour palette (I do) then that's the way to go. Cost is about as much as Superia 200. The cheapest Kodak I can find here is Kodak Color 200 for €2.50. It is older technology film and it kinda shows. There's also a Lomo 100 that is almost surely some kind of Kodak. I suspect it's the same as Kodak Pro 100? Not sure. But it has great colour and at €3.70 it is a very enticing proposition in case you need an ISO 100 film (the only other offering being Ektar at twice the price).

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[mod2001]

Using Fuji Superia 200 in my T3 all the time now. Really like the color palette of this film and for me it works best at box speed. Quit expensive here in BCN, so I order always in Germany at Macodirect, the have the 36 3er Pack for around $11,20 means around $3,70 per film.

Yogi

 

[Prest_400]

I think superia 200 is a nice balance. The problem here may be that you do not have local options. Take a look at buying bulk online. EU has a few suppliers.
Even it can make sense to order from Asia... The Kodak Proimage that Brett and Michael mention is distributed in select markets (Asia) and I haven't seen it here in EU nor America. There are a few ebay sellers that can ship worldwide and price is good.

Each place has its quirks on particular films. UK has the Poundland Agfa Vista, in Spain (BCN) it's around 5€ so priced like a Superia.

We have a Lomo store there, so it is convenient to have a cheap local option.


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[Leica All Day]

I've often thought about selling some Kodak Pro Image 100 to members of this forum but I'm not sure if the film will get x-rayed or not. As far as Thai Post goes, it's better than good. I've sent numerous Leica cameras and lenses to the states and I've never had a problem (knock on wood). The price has risen to 590 Baht for 5 rolls (about 17 USD). I'm not sure if it's worth it or not to sell online, but if I did I'd advertise here on the classifieds to make sure I do it properly.

Cheers,
Michael

 

[jcb4718]

Kodak Colorplus 200, widely available of Ebay. For a small fun camera I take my Voigtlander Vito B (small viewfinder and with independently set aperture and shutter speeds, 1 sec to 1/125 sec in the modern progression plus 1/300 sec but 1/300 is in fact 1/250 with these cameras). Mine has the f2.8 Color Skopar lens, a world class unit focussing Tessar (the Rollei Tessar is front cell focussing, I think). My flash is an Olympus S20. I need a cold-to-hot shoe adapter to connect the flash to the PC socket and allow the flash to be mounted. For portrait shots I slip the flash off the coldshoe and hold it above the camera so the shadow is always below the subject. Satisfyingly simple and great fun! Kodak negative film seems particularly well suited to sunny conditions.

 

[MIkhail]

Hey gang!

Next month I'm going abroad with a couple of compacts (mainly because I'm too much of a wimp to take my Leica along) and was wondering what your favourite Colour Negative Film is. I am going to the Caribbean (Cuba) so needless to say, I want to capture all of the beautiful colours the Caribbean has to offer. As much as I would love to take 20 rolls of Velvia or Ektar along, it just isn't economically feasible (aka I'm cheap).

The only "cheap" colour negative stock I've ever used has been Kodak Gold 200 and I absolutely loved it.

I'm essentially looking for suggestions and was wondering if any of you folks have a favourite? Any responses are greatly appreciated 🙂

Take digital camera instead.

 

[LukeBanks]

Superia 200 has always been my pick for cheap 35mm colour. Nice balance of grain, colour reproduction and tones, especially under bright sunlight.

 

[sara]

Superia 400 for me. Tried Ultramax 400 and was disappointed with the results (and I used it for holiday as well).

 

[Huss]

I've often thought about selling some Kodak Pro Image 100 to members of this forum but I'm not sure if the film will get x-rayed or not. As far as Thai Post goes, it's better than good. I've sent numerous Leica cameras and lenses to the states and I've never had a problem (knock on wood). The price has risen to 590 Baht for 5 rolls (about 17 USD). I'm not sure if it's worth it or not to sell online, but if I did I'd advertise here on the classifieds to make sure I do it properly.

Cheers,
Michael

Sell me 5 rolls and I'll be the guinea pig in this experiment. If xrays ruin it, I'll let peeps know before you set it up as a regular enterprise.
🙂

 

[aaron.tam]

Got to be Kodak's Pro Image 100. Great colours for the great price of US$3.2 per roll.

 

[sepiareverb]

Pro Image 100 is lovely, as is Fuji Industrial 100.

 

[Prest_400]

Sell me 5 rolls and I'll be the guinea pig in this experiment. If xrays ruin it, I'll let peeps know before you set it up as a regular enterprise.

🙂

I did purchase Provia from Thailand a couple of years ago and it is perfect.
Heck, I mail order and process film sending out always and never had problems. I could guess they must do some security controls but perhaps automated ones.

At those prices it is cheap. There's a Thai eBay seller but his prices aren't that cheap now.

OTOH it is interesting that Thailand has a nice film network.


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[HHPhoto]

Fujifilm C200 is dirt cheap, and here in my country the cheapest color negative film. Nevertheless it is quite good.
Superia 200 delivers better quality, and is still very cheap. Excellent price performance ratio.
Superia 200 has better detail rendition (smaller grain, higher resolution) than Kodak's Color Plus 200 (older emulsion) and Gold 200 (current emulsion).
I prefer the color rendition of Superia 200. The Kodak films are to yellowish (warm) for my taste.

The current AgfaPhoto Vista are produced by Fujifilm.
Vista 200 seeems to be Fuji C200, and Vista 400 is probably Superia 400.

Cheers, Jan

 

[dkreindler]

Hey gang!

Next month I'm going abroad with a couple of compacts (mainly because I'm too much of a wimp to take my Leica along) and was wondering what your favourite Colour Negative Film is. I am going to the Caribbean (Cuba) so needless to say, I want to capture all of the beautiful colours the Caribbean has to offer. As much as I would love to take 20 rolls of Velvia or Ektar along, it just isn't economically feasible (aka I'm cheap).

The only "cheap" colour negative stock I've ever used has been Kodak Gold 200 and I absolutely loved it.

I'm essentially looking for suggestions and was wondering if any of you folks have a favourite? Any responses are greatly appreciated 🙂

You can get Kodak 200 Gold at Wal-Mart in Canada. Probably the best cheap film we can get locally.

 

[GarageBoy]

Development costs more than the film

Thus, I use Portra - but otherwise, Kodak if you like warm, Fuji if you like clean, saturated greens

 

[Michael I.]

i shot published work with both generic fuji and kodak 200 films, they were in date and processed shortly after exposure (no more than, say, a week)

 

[Arbitrarium]

I'm all about Agfa Vista 200. Great results in overcast conditions (which is basically all the time here in Yorkshire.)

 

[TEZillman]

Thanks for the advice! I almost bought a Rollei Flash with the camera itself but I was weirded out by either A) having the flash on bottom or B) holding the camera upside down.

Any recommendations for a small flash unit?

There's a third option which is to use a PC adapter in the flash holder (e.g. something like the Nikon AS-15) or, if you look into the tripod socket, there is a PC socket at the bottom. This was meant for an adapter that they made years ago. To use it, you would need to modify a PC extension cable to reach the socket. It is too far in to use a normal PC cord. In either case, you can use any flash that will connect with a PC cable, off camera.

 

[Richard G]

Ektar I’m now reserving for 120 format only. Expensive in Australia. I just bought Kodak Pro Image 100 here for $89 Australian ($59.30 USD) for five 135 format rolls. I’d never heard of it. It’s been sold mostly in Asia and the advertising on the box is all Caucasian family/wedding stuff. Some reviews describe a warm, yellow cast, not as fine grained as Ektar and less intense colours. Users seem happy with it.