This Harman Phoenix 200 is said to be a newly designed colour negative analogue film that hit the market in early 2024. Many people did not expect anyone except for Kodak and Fuji even being able to produce a (new) color negative film, so it created quite the buzz. I already had this film developed in C-41 and I wasn’t too happy with the results, so this time I tried the ECN-2 process.
Processing (ECN-2) and scanning was done at Silbersalz in Germany. The pictures in this article are from one roll of film. Per recommendation when having the film ECN-2 developed I shot it at half box speed (ISO 100).
Also when developed in ECN-2 my opinion on this film hasn’t changed: high grain, high contrast/low latitude and an orangey/red color cast – albeit the dynamic range looks slightly better to me here.
As you can see from the following pictures: halation and low dynamic range and somewhat odd colors are still a problem.
I did find the image quality a bit better when developed in ECN-2 with slightly better dynamic range, so I would definitely pick this option again.
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Interesting how the ECN-2 process tamed this film significantly. Actually I can see some scenarios when this film would be nice to use. In 120 format would be even nicer. To supress the still very pronounced grain.
Do you plan to try the new Phoenix version(Phoenix II) too? Harman seemed to listen and not long after launch of the original Phoenix they started selling “a better one”. 🙂
If I come across it: yes.
I have read part of the issue with the strong color cast is the color of the film material and there’s no profile in these old film scanning machines. Home scans seem to produce much better results.