Very fine grain, rich colors.

- Pricy
- Not for high-contrast situations
- Colors are unrealistic (but beautiful)

This is a film for low-contrast situations. Do not even think about shooting it in the bright sunlight!

Grain is good, but again, Royal Gold 400 has even better grain and is one stop faster. So I do not really see much reason to use it, except, maybe, it's price comparing to RG 400.

Colors are very beautiful, saturated, but, IMHO, unrealistic. But it is up to your personal preferences. I like to use Royal Gold films because they can give the dullest place vivid colors.

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cheap in packets
sharp
extra stop from 100 is a godsend
colors are truest of its kind

no fancy advertising or attention-feels like a neglected film, a middle child

A very sharp, extra stop film that has great color accuracy to my eye. Labs seem to print this film easiest, making for better results almost from anywhere. Colors are not exaggerated, but not muted and dull- very accurate. Skin tones are natural looking. A very little bit less sharp that 100, but that is to be expected- still much more smoother skin. Royal Gold 400 (see below)is a tiny, tiny bit grainer, but the grain does look like grain (?what does that mean)-you almost can't see the grain (normally). Gold 200 is much cheaper, though, but Royal Gold 400 is much similiar (seems a bit contrastier, too) but you get a bonus stop. On the other hand, regular Gold 400 really is the pits for me, grainy and with strange colors. Slap this film in and get prints that are color accurate, sharp, and with smooth skin tones. My favorite standard print film.

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Great Colour saturation, but very natural with skin tones etc. Very fine grain for a 200 film (OK so its not quite as fine as Reala). Extra speed over 100 is indispensable for group photography or moving objects. Can be cheap if you buy in packs of 5.

Just enough grain to make me look for a 100 speed film when I do not need the speed.

Fantastic all round film. As always though, the jack of all trades cannot be master of them all. Does a pretty good job though. I used to use the standard Kodak films and was pretty happy, until I tried this. Wow! This was then the only film I used for some time until I started getting more serious about landscape enlargements, and now I want even finer grain, but I have been disapointed with the colour and contrasts of all the 100 films by comparison with this. So now when I finish a film, I tend to leave the camera unloaded till I know what I am shooting next. When I get a second body, one will ALWAYS be loaded with this film for general all round use. Its that good...

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Kodak Gold 100,200,400 and 800.
Kodak Royal Gold 100.
Fuji Reala 100.
Jessops 200.

Sometimes it is on sale (RG400 never is) but other than that none really

As grainy as RG 400

I really can't think of one reason to use this film. Check out Kodak's own numbers - Royal Gold 400 is actually less grainy, and it's a stop faster. If your shooting in very bright light (Sunny day at the beach, etc.) use RG100. Other than that just stick with Royal Gold 400.

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RG100
RG400
Supra 400
Gold 400
Superia 400

Gorgeous prints!
Fantastic colour reproduction and virtually no grain.

Not as fast as 400 film (obvious, I know)

Is there a better film for shooting portraits on a budget? Certainly not out of the stuff I've tried. I don't shoot many prints outside, so the extra speed of a 400 film doesn't matter too much, as the camera is normally tripod mounted.
I've just shot a couple of rolls of Royal 400, so I'm looking forward to seeing the differences (if any) between the two. But inside, I'll stick to this film!

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Not needed for this film, but wonderfully efficient when I've had to use them!

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Kodak Gold 200 / 400 / 800
Royal 400 / 1000
Superia 200 / 400
Schlecker 400
Agfa 200 / 400

All areas you could imagine

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Fantastic film! I get it developed on a Fuji Frontier machine, and the results are simply fantastic in 4 by 6 prints. I have used the film in both the Nikon FA and the Nikon Zoom Touch 105VR. I in particular like photographing trees, and this film handles the true color of tree trunks amazingly well. Combined with the Fuji Frontier machine this film makes prints just pop out like real life. Guess you get the idea that I love this film..

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Have not sued it

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Kodak Gold 200

faster than 100

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Developed five rools of film in a lab that uses kodak image check. The pictures turned out awful without any contrast, color saturation, contrast. Was so disgusted left all five envelopes in the store.

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gold 100
max 400
superia

Great color, tones and pin sharp.
It's cheap, can buy 3 of them for almost nothing.
I trust this film.
I don't trust the Gold 400, sometimes it's underexposed sometimes overexposed.
That doesn't happen with the 200 version!!!

I don't really know.

This is a great film, and it is cheap. I use this film for everything outdoors and sometimes for indoors. It's great for sports.
I sell photos to newspapers, magasins and private people. And if this film is good enought for a big frontpage photo. It's good for everybody.
I offen blow my prints up to 40x60 or 50x75 and it's great.

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All other 200 films!!
(Nearly all other)

Excellent sharpness/resolution, fine grain, nice color saturation, and contrast. Colors are very accurate, at least to my eye.

I stopped using this film when I discovered in Kodak's technical data that Royal Gold 400 gives the same fine grain with an extra stop of speed.

A great film, but you'll get the same excellent results plus an extra stop with the Royal Gold 400. Definitely a step up in quality from plain old Gold 100/200/400, though.

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Kodak's da man!

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Gold 200, assorted slower and faster color-print films

Blows up well, saturated but not excessively so.

not all labs print it equally well

This is a good general purpose film with high sharpness. While I'm aware that there are people on the internet who deride ISO 200 films just on general principle, I have made several 20x30" prints from this film and, at least for properly exposed negatives, grain is not an issue. Sure, you can see the grain on poster prints if you're looking for it, but no one who sees my prints says "oh my God, look at that grain". The color balance is also good. While for caucasian skin tone I prefer the Portra films, for landscape photography and for portraits of darker skinned people you won't go far wrong with this film. As with several other currently available films, this film is good ennough that in most cases the limiting factor in the quaility of your photographs will be the photographer.

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