KodakColorPlus 200

Kodak ColorPlus 200 is an ISO 200 color negative film for C-41 processing, sold only in 35 mm as Kodak’s budget option, and Kodak publishes no datasheet for it [2] [13]. Since October 2025, Eastman Kodak also sells Kodacolor 200, which the press and a side-by-side test identify as ColorPlus under a new name; Kodak has not confirmed it [4] [6] [10].

Look and color

• Muted or punchy: reviews split.
  • Muted: “low saturation results in fairly muted images, which can give a nice vintage feel, but can also easily tip into being drab and dull” [13]; “less colour-saturated than Gold” [16]; “moderate levels of saturation and contrast with less than Gold 200” [17].
  • Punchy: “very vibrant and contrasty” [15]; next to Gold, “blues are deeper, reds pop harder” [12].
  • In Analog.cafe’s controlled comparison, there was “virtually no practical difference” with Gold, whose pumpkin was only “slightly more saturated” [6].
• Warm, to a point. It “tends towards warmth” [16], with “an evident warmth that may appear as an increased sensitivity to reds, vivid greens, and slightly subdued blues” [7], and a “yellow hue” [18]. Lens Lurker finds the palette “a bit more balanced than” Gold 200 [17].
• Reds and pinks “pop just a bit more than its blues and greens do” [9].
• Skin. Analog.cafe finds Gold “a little better at rendering skin tones than ColorPlus” [7].
• “Vintage”? Kodak told Analog.cafe that “customers tell us it has a more vintage feel” [8]. Analog.cafe’s own side-by-side test contradicts articles that “assign a ‘vintage’ look to ColorPlus and a ‘modern’ look to Gold, without explaining the process or providing sufficient proof” [6].
• The Grain Archive style. The Kodak ColorPlus 200 style is an interpretation built from these reviews, since no datasheet exists. It warms skin and reds, mutes blues and keeps a moderate contrast; where reviews disagree, its settings are orders of magnitude, not measurements.
• Kodacolor 200 boxes. The Darkroom finds Kodacolor 200 “slightly cooler in tone” than ColorPlus, likely from batch variation or a change in film base [11]; Digital Camera World sees “a tad more saturation” [14]; Blue Moon Camera sees it “lean a bit yellow”, probably because of how scanners correct it [10].

Tonality

• No curve. Kodak publishes no characteristic curve for ColorPlus or Kodacolor 200 [2] [1].
• Contrast. For most reviews it is soft: “the contrast of ColorPlus is low key”, with “much shallower shadows” [9]; it “doesn’t have particularly strong contrast” [16]. The Darkroom finds it “more punchy and contrasty compared to Gold” [12].
• Latitude: generous over, short under.
  • Overexposure: “as much as 2-3 stops before you notice dramatic changes”; underexposure: “keep the film within the 1 stop range” [9].
  • It is “not particularly tolerant to exposure errors. Underexpose even a little and details will become muddy very quickly” [13]; it “won’t cope well with underexposure” [16]. “Some say ColorPlus is best rated at 100 for the shadows” [15].
  • Analog.cafe advises avoiding “grey, low-contrast, badly-lit, or indoor scenes without flash” [7]. On Kodacolor 200, Digital Camera World found that “highlights have a nice-looking glow” and “shadows retain a good amount of detail” [14].
  • A US retailer’s listing claimed two stops under to three stops over [3]: exactly the latitude Kodak publishes for Gold 200 [22].

Grain and sharpness

• With no datasheet, there is no official grain figure. Analog.cafe found “identical grain size and structure” to Gold and assumes a Print Grain Index of about 44 [7].
• Other reviews: “about on par with Kodak Gold 200 or Colorplus 200” (on Kodacolor 200) [10]; “not quite as chunky as the grain you can get with Gold 200” (Kodacolor 200) [14]; “isn’t as smooth as Kodak Gold or Ultramax” [15]; “noticeable but never overbearing” [18].
• Sharpness: no published measurement. Kodak’s Kodacolor 200 page claims “high sharpness” [1].

Names, status and history

• A budget film for some markets. In 2017, Kodak Alaris described ColorPlus as “a lower-priced color negative film offering, similar in nature to the old VR films”, “sold only in specific regions”, with “no technical pub” [2]. In 2023, Kodak told Analog.cafe on Twitter that it “was introduced years ago as a lower cost offering intended for price-sensitive markets” [8]. It long sold mostly in Asia and South America [7].
• Origins: the dates differ. Wikipedia’s list of films dates ColorPlus from 1990, as “Kodacolor VR 200 re-introduced as a budget offer to Gold 200” [20]. Blue Moon Camera says ColorPlus “was not adopted as a name until the late 1990s or early 2000s”, and traces both ColorPlus and Gold to the Kodacolor VR films of the early 1980s [9]; Digital Camera World gives 2001 [13].
• Kodacolor 200 (October 2025). On September 30, 2025, a US retailer listed Kodacolor 200 and described it as ColorPlus 200 [3]. Kodak announced Kodacolor 100 and 200 on Instagram on October 1, in 135, as “sub-brands of existing Kodak films” [4] [5]. Its product page lists Kodacolor 200 in 135-36 only and does not mention ColorPlus [1].
• Same film? Reported, not confirmed.
  • Analog.cafe developed both together and found that “the edge markings are identical on Kodacolor 200 and ColorPlus”: ColorPlus “is indisputably the same film as the new Kodacolor 200”. Gold 200, shot alongside, “immediately felt firmer” [6].
  • Kosmo Foto calls it “the new name for Kodak’s consumer-level ColorPlus 200 film” [4], and later “rebadged versions of Kodak Pro Image 100 and ColorPlus 200” for both Kodacolor films [19]. Digital Camera World: “Spoilers: it’s ColorPlus.” [14]
  • But “Eastman Kodak has steadfastly refused to confirm” it [10], and The Darkroom notes that it “hasn’t been officially confirmed by Kodak” [11].
• Both names on sale. On September 29, 2026, ColorPlus 200 was still sold in 24 and 36 exposures [21], and Kosmo Foto reported in April 2026 that Kodak Alaris keeps distributing its films [19]. We found no discontinuation notice.