Anyone shot Lucky super 200?

Nzoomed · Jun 2, 2021

Got given a bunch of film from a friend and interested to know more about this "lucky super 200 new" from China.
Has been kept frozen and is dated 2013, but ive read the company closed in 2012?

Any info would be great. I believe its based on an old kodacolor formula if someone can confirm this.
I see Lomography had been selling it in the past.

railwayman3 · Jun 2, 2021

Had a couple of (within date) rolls a few years ago.......C41 process, nothing exciting, just average OK results much the same as consumer films like Kodak Colourplus and Agfa Vista.
I believe the Lucky factory was a joint venture with Kodak, before the latter's business problems ;-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Lucky_Film

Paul Howell · Jun 2, 2021

Sort of joint venture with Kodak, Lucky bought an 80s vintage Kodak coating line, the agreement was that Luck was not import the to the U.S. but 3rd party importers did import some. That was in the late 90s or so, It was sold at Moto Photo to real estate agents as inexpensive film in short rolls of 12, images of houses and the like. I recall 100, 200 and 400, when printed we coded the older analog Fuji minilabs as Kodacolor. The 100 was pretty good, the 400 rather grainy. Lucky was out of the market for a while then in 2017 started production again with an updated formula?

Nzoomed · Jun 2, 2021

Paul Howell said:
Sort of joint venture with Kodak, Lucky bought an 80s vintage Kodak coating line, the agreement was that Luck was not import the to the U.S. but 3rd party importers did import some. That was in the late 90s or so, It was sold at Moto Photo to real estate agents as inexpensive film in short rolls of 12, images of houses and the like. I recall 100, 200 and 400, when printed we coded the older analog Fuji minilabs as Kodacolor. The 100 was pretty good, the 400 rather grainy. Lucky was out of the market for a while then in 2017 started production again with an updated formula?

Well this is what I was trying to work out, i read somewhere that they stopped production in 2012, yet my film is dated 2013, and then i read about what you say in 2017 starting back up again and making film again, from what I can tell it was just a black and white film.
If anyone can shed more light on this, i'd be interested to know.

Yeah, I dont expect the quality to be anything special, but it may very well be nice for lo-fi photography or have that 70s/80s kodacolor look im hoping.

MattKing · Jun 2, 2021

Film manufactured in 2012 would most likely have a "develop before" date in 2013 or 2014.

Nzoomed · Jun 2, 2021

MattKing said:
Film manufactured in 2012 would most likely have a "develop before" date in 2013 or 2014.

Your right, just took another look and it is a "develop before" date.
Makes me think its likely the very last batch.
If they still have the coating machinery it would be pretty cool to see what other film they possibly turn up with in the future, even if it is from China, the more manufacturers of colour film, the better.

Paul Howell · Jun 3, 2021

I checked Ebay and Alibaba, no fresh Lucky film to be found, if Lucky resumed film production in 2017 they did not make much and did not seem to last.

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