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Even with the limited amount of different color negative films available these days Kodak manages to confuse the people by offering two different “low cost” ISO 200 daylight films: the Kodak Gold 200 (which I already had a look at here and here) and this Color Plus 200.
From what I gathered the Color Plus is based on older emulsion technology leading to slightly grainer and contrastier pictures, so let’s have a look at some samples.
Processing (ECN-2) and scanning was done at Silbersalz35 in Germany.
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While supposed to be cheaper than Kodak Gold, these days the pricing is completely bogus because everything is always in short supply, so I think I ended up paying more for this roll of Color Plus 200 than I ever did for a roll of Gold 200.
Despite being only ISO200 I did also use it for some indoor shots with artificial light which it handled well (this might also be in part thanks to the Silbersalz processing though):
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![color plus 200 color+ kodak review m6 leica analogue analog](https://phillipreeve.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Kodak_Color_Plus_200_MS_35_1.4_Sample_17.jpg)
To be honest with you, I don’t see a big difference compared to Gold 200 here. Would I be willing to pay more for this than Gold 200? Nah, not really.
Considering the sparse number of films available these days I do really wonder why Kodak kept both – the Color Plus 200 and Gold 200 – in the programme, while discontinuing so many other films. Maybe the machine producing Color Plus just keeps working against all odds…
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It’s probably because of the ECN2 processing, but in my experience Color Plus doesn’t have the yellow tint that Gold 200 brings. That’s why I prefer it myself, it’s the slightly warmer counterpart to Fuji C200 – a perfectly decent, “cheap” (at least it used to be) everyday film. Better color fidelity than Gold 200 – again, when C41 processed – which always turns out garishly yellow to my eyes.
Oh and P.S.: that top shot is *chef’s kiss* So fun to see how much dynamic range in the highlights even consumer film has.