{"id":37424,"date":"2023-06-03T09:18:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T08:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/?p=37424"},"modified":"2023-06-20T07:46:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T06:46:20","slug":"analogue-adventures-part-20-kodak-color-plus-200-ecn-2-processed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/analogue-adventures-part-20-kodak-color-plus-200-ecn-2-processed\/","title":{"rendered":"Analogue Adventures \u2013 Part 20: Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2 processed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kodak Color Plus 200<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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<\/a> and here<\/a>) and this Color Plus 200.
\nFrom 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.
\nProcessing (ECN-2) and scanning was done at Silbersalz35<\/a> in Germany.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f\/2.8 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f\/2.8 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f\/8.0 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f\/2.0 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f\/2.8 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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):<\/p>\n

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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f\/2.0 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f\/2.0 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f\/2.0 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f\/2.0 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 50mm 1.0 ISM | f\/8.0 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f\/11 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leica M6 | Hologon 16mm 8.0 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f\/2.0 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 50mm 1.0 ISM | f\/8.0 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2 | overexposed due to light leak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f\/2.8 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Further Reading<\/h2>\n