KodakVerita 200D

Kodak Verita 200D (5206 in 35 and 65 mm, 7206 in 16 mm) is a daylight-balanced color negative motion picture film, rated EI 200 and processed in ECN-2 [1]. Kodak announced it in April 2026, developed with the team of HBO’s Euphoria season 3, and describes a shorter dynamic range than Vision3 with higher saturation [2] [4]. Some writers call it the ECN-2 version of Portra 400; Kodak does not say so.

Look and color

• Kodak’s description. The brochure promises “beautiful and warm skin tones, higher color saturation, and deep blacks” compared with Vision3 [2]. The datasheet adds “outstanding highlights and smooth skin tone reproduction” [1].
• Magenta highlights are documented. Kodak says the initial scans are less neutral in the highlights, which tend toward magenta, adjustable in grading. It blames the stock’s “alternative linear response in higher densities” and credits the same trait with “rich depth and warmth” in flesh tones [1]. Analog.cafe repeats the warning [8].
• C-41 exaggerates it. In two rolls developed in C-41, Rafael Lopes saw “a clear shift toward magenta in the highlights, with blue creeping into some of the tones”, and liked it [7] [6].
• Not a grade. Our style follows the film’s own description, not the look of any show graded from it.
• Saturation: the sources disagree. Kodak says saturation is higher than Vision3 [2]. Camera Clara, working in C-41, judged the film essentially equivalent to Portra 400 [6]. This contradicts Kodak’s claim, and no source compares the two on identical scenes.

Tonality

• Curve. On the datasheet the three layers span about −6 to +7 stops, with a clear straight section and a shoulder that flattens beyond about +4 stops (our reading of the graph; no numeric values are published) [1]. Kodak also promises “deep blacks” [2].
• Exposure range. Kodak places a white card 2⅓ stops above normal exposure, with at least 3½ more stops for specular highlights, and a 3 % black card 2⅔ stops below, with at least 2½ more for shadow detail [2].
• Steeper and shorter. Cinematographer Marcell Rév describes “a steeper density curve” and more contrast than Vision3, with more color separation. He calls it a scanning stock with more latitude for overexposure than underexposure: “If you underexpose it, it gets milky” [5].
• Metering. Kodak lists EI 200 in daylight and asks for no filter or exposure correction from 1/1000 s to 1 s [1]. Lopes notes that C-41 stocks usually need about one stop more exposure than their ECN-2 versions [6].

Grain and sharpness

Kodak calls the measured granularity “exceptionally low” [2]. The datasheet publishes it only as diffuse RMS curves, measured with “modified measuring techniques”: we read σD at about 0.008 to 0.02 depending on layer and density, which is not comparable with the RMS figures of still films [1]. The film includes Kodak’s Dye Layering Technology [1].

• Sources disagree. The ASC article, on the other hand, says grain is visible on screen, especially in 35 mm [5]. No still photographer has published a grain comparison yet.
• Sharpness. Kodak publishes modulation transfer curves for the three layers, but no resolving power [1]. Lopes found halation controlled better than on CineStill 800T in one side-by-side, despite the missing rem-jet [7].

Spectral sensitivity

On the datasheet’s spectral curves, the yellow-forming layer is nearly flat at about 2.0 from 400 to 470 nm, the magenta-forming layer peaks at about 2.0 near 550 nm and the cyan-forming layer at about 2.1 near 650 nm (our reading of the graph) [1]. Kodak recommends the film for daylight only [1]. The Grain Archive style is not computed from these curves.

Names, status and history

• April 2026. Kodak announced Verita 200D in April 2026, ahead of the Euphoria season 3 premiere; coverage is dated April 10 to 13 [4] [8] [9]. The datasheet is dated April 2026 (H-1-5206) [1]. Over a million feet were reportedly exposed on that season [4], and A24’s The Death of Robin Hood also used it [9].
• Status. On September 30, 2026, Kodak listed 5206/7206 on its camera films page, in 65 mm, 35 mm and 16 mm, available through a sales representative [3].
• No still-camera version. Analog.cafe says Kodak does not sell motion picture film to the general public [8]. We found no named respool of Verita 200D. Berlin Photo Studio warns that repackaged films vary by source and batch [11].
• Is it Portra 400? A forum poster on Roger Deakins’s site calls it the ECN-2 version of Portra 400 and notes it appears as “Portra” in the show’s end credits [10]; Lopes says the same [6] [7]. None cites Kodak. We treat it as unconfirmed. See the Kodak Portra 400 page.