FujifilmFujicolor C200

Fujifilm Fujicolor C200 is a daylight-type ISO 200 color negative film for C-41 processing, sold in 35 mm only [1]. Reviewers treat it as Fujifilm’s budget film, one of the cheapest 35 mm color films on the market [5] [8]. It is not the same film as Superia 200, which it replaced in Fujifilm’s 35 mm line [4]. In the US it has been sold as Fujicolor 200 (Fujifilm 200 on the datasheet) since 2022, and whether that film is the same emulsion is disputed [3].

Look and color

• What Fujifilm promised. Smooth, “beautiful” and natural skin tones, and no correction filter in daylight or with electronic flash [1].
• A cool, green-blue cast in most reviews. Next to Kodak Gold 200, one tester saw “a more greenish bluish cast” [6].
• Greens are the highlight. Reviewers call them the “typical Fuji look” and well rendered [5] [8] [9]. Blues are also praised [8].
• Reds can be punchy. One reviewer loves that it “can get really punchy” in the reds [5], while another found the reds and blues loud next to Gold 200 [6].
• One review disagrees on the cast. 50mmF2 saw a pink or magenta cast in highlights and overexposed frames, the same on two rolls developed separately, and no green in the shadows [7]. The other reviews we read lean green-blue. Scans and labs differ, and these are single-roll impressions, not measurements.
• Skin. Natural at box speed, pink when overexposed, according to the same reviewer [7].

Tonality

• Curve. On the datasheet’s characteristic curves the toe runs from log H −4 to about −2.5, then the three layers follow a straight line with no visible shoulder to the edge of the graph, at log H +0.3. The slope reads at roughly 0.6, higher in green and blue than in red (our approximate reading) [1].
• Contrast. “An extra boost in contrast” over Gold 200 for 50mmF2 [7], noticeably stronger contrast for Emulsive [6], “a good amount of contrast” for Parallax [8]. Fujifilm gives no numeric contrast value.
• Latitude is thinly documented. A reader comment quoted by Casual Photophile calls underexposed frames muddy. The article’s author found the film best at 200 or 400, and pushing to ISO 800 gave “muddy and bland” results [9]. The 35mmc reviewer notes a lower dynamic range than Portra and manages it with metering [5]. Overexposure brings pink skin [7].
• Long exposures. No correction from 1/4000 to 2 s, then +1/3 stop at 4 s, +2/3 at 16 s and +1 at 64 s [1].

Grain and sharpness

Fujifilm publishes a diffuse RMS granularity, measured through a 48 µm aperture at a density of 1.0 above minimum. It is a different scale from Kodak’s Print Grain Index, so the table compares only Fujifilm sheets [1].

• Fujifilm calls the grain fine for a high-speed film and credits its “New Super Uniform Fine Grain Technology” [1].
• Reviews: “significantly finer grain” than Kodak Gold 200 in Emulsive’s test [6], slightly less than Gold 200 but “noticeable” for 50mmF2, and more visible in low light [7]. Parallax writes “a nice distinct grain” [8], and 35mmc finds the grain in dark areas attractive [5].
• Sharpness: Fujifilm publishes an MTF curve and the resolving powers above [1].

Spectral sensitivity

The datasheet plots three layers. The blue layer holds a plateau from about 405 to 450 nm and peaks near 470 nm, the green layer peaks near 560 nm, and the red layer rises to a broad plateau that peaks near 640 nm [1]. Blue and green cross near 494 nm, green and red near 581 nm. There is no fourth layer on this sheet, unlike Superia 200 [1] [4]. The Grain Archive color style is tuned from the datasheet and the reviews above; it is not computed from these curves.

Names, status and history

• Datasheet. The bulletin is AF3-0249E, print code 17.05-BX. It applies to production number C74 and above and lists only the 135 format [1]. It says processing and printing are almost the same as for Superia 200 [1].
• 2017. When Superia 200 was discontinued, Wikipedia says the “older technology Fujicolor C200 (without 4th color layer)” was advised as the replacement [4]. By 2021, 50mmF2 counted C200 and Superia X-TRA 400 as the only two color negative films Fujifilm still made in 35 mm [7].
• January 2022. Kosmo Foto reported that Fujifilm rebranded C200 as Fujicolor 200 in the US, with Fujifilm 200 on the datasheet [3].
  • The article was later updated to note that the new datasheet resembles a Kodak color negative film’s, and a commenter said its curves are not the C200 curves [3].
  • We found no official statement on whether the emulsion changed, so we treat “Fujifilm 200 is C200” as reported, not confirmed. See also the Kodak Gold 200 page.
• September 30, 2026. Fujifilm’s US consumer film page listed Fujifilm 200 and Fujifilm 400, and no Fujicolor C200 [2].