Kodacolor 100. New

[BrianShaw]

English is not my first language, so I might've missed where EK said in plain English which existing film is Kodacolor 100 and which is Kodacolor 200... Can you tell us so we and the YT folks can stop guessing?

We all know Kodocolor 100/200 are not new films. It would be beyond crazy for EK to come up with new films as shitty as that.

Your English is fine. They stated existing and didn't say which. There are a limited number of options...

As to which films they are, the guesses in this thread are probably as good a guess as you'll get. Interestingly, nobody seems to have authoritative contacts within Kodak to ask, nor has anyone asked Mr. Mooney, who is quite responsive to most questions about Kodak.

 

[MattKing]

I doubt that they are the same film as something you can buy new in another box, with a different version/name on it.
They may very well be basically the same as an older iteration of a no longer made film, adjusted due to concerns about current costs and component availability concerns. Or even just adjusted so the old emulsions can be used with Estar base, instead of the acetate base that the older version came on.

 

[BrianShaw]

… unless the rebranding is to simply make the old branding obsolete. Specifically, replacement for improved marketing versus an additional product SKU. That wouldn’t surprise me at all.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

The greater point, perhaps, is that ALL products wherever made have been in a "race to the bottom" for decades. Cost control and maintaining market shre has been a major problem for a long time. Kodacolor 100 and 200 quality hasn't changed... they are what the are: an existing product that is at whatever level they always were at. If anything, the quality associated with the name "Kodacolor" may be different now than it was in the olden days but comparing then to now could be a fool's errand.

I think the quality has gone down much more once domestic producers started to send manufacturing offshore to reduce prices.