richardHaw
junk scavenger
hello, does anybody have any info if both stocks are the same? i know that a batch of agfa vista 200 is just rebranded C200 but i am unsure if the Kodak is a rebranded film. 
anybody has comparisons of the film code?
anybody has comparisons of the film code?
Solinar
Analog Preferred
That will be a good tale for the forums - the big yellow father having to sell film made by big green.
Steve M.
Veteran
In all my years as a photographer, I can't remember a Kodak film ever being a rebranded something else. Good way to get one of them internet myth thangs going though :]
gavinlg
Veteran
Hey Richard, I’m fairly sure colorplus200 is its own product - it’s one of my favourite cheaper stocks and by comparison the cheap Fuji’s never seem to scan easily for me. No film code evidence here, just my impression using it fairly often.
brbo
Well-known
(lo)ooool!
Ste_S
Well-known
The most obvious answer is that Colorplus is Kodacolor VR 200, out of the same (Chinese ?!) plant that sells the 100/400/800 variants to Lomo for their CN film.
Changing the subject slightly.. if Kodacolor VR-G 200 is Kodak Gold, and VR-G 400 is Ultramax... Is Pro Image VR-G 100 ?
Changing the subject slightly.. if Kodacolor VR-G 200 is Kodak Gold, and VR-G 400 is Ultramax... Is Pro Image VR-G 100 ?
olifaunt
Well-known
Another tangent, last year I ran out of Portra 400 on vacation and could only find Ultramax in a local convenience store. For some reason the Ultramax images came out much more beautiful than the more expensive Portra. Tones and highlights and color were better.
Huss
Veteran
Portra is meant for Portrait photography. Hence the name.
Utramax will have more saturated brighter colours.
olifaunt
Well-known
Portra is usually very good for landscape too. The new Portra 400 is usually a great all-purpose film. I think the chemistry may have been off with that batch, but in any case I was really trying to say that the Ultramax was surprisingly good, I shouldn't have discounted it.
richardHaw
junk scavenger
cool! let's do some myth-busting! anybody has codes for C200? I am going to process this roll in the weekend.
brbo
Well-known
Myth-busting of what? Edge markings (fonts, additional color stripes on Fuji film, dx code) couldn't be more different.
Fuji does not make film for Kodak. Who told you that it does?!
Fuji does not make film for Kodak. Who told you that it does?!
HHPhoto
Well-known
+1.
Kodak Color Plus 200 and Fujicolor C200 are completely different films:
- different color rendering (Kodak is warmer, Fuji more neutral)
- different grain structure, sharpness and resolution (C200 is finer grained, sharper and higher resolving)
- C200 is a more modern and younger emulsion (it is the forerunner of the last Superia 200 version)
- Color Plus is based on the old Kodak VR emulsion.
Take shots with both films side-by-side under identical conditions. And then make large prints from it. You will immediately see that these films are very different.
Cheers, Jan