There are always incidents of the emperor's new clothes....but the differences between Color Plus 200 and Gold 200 are repeatable and quite obvious. A lot of people like Gold because it tends to make dull days look brighter. Not to my personal taste but happily we still have Gold and Color Plus.
As far as anyone is aware, EK are still making VR 100, 400 and 800 when the Lomography folk put in an order. It seems likely they'd be able to make VR 200 also. PE, do you have any more info on the arrangement between EK and Lomogrpahy? The received wisdom is that the Lomo C41 films are Kodacolor VR but I don't know if it's been proved. Some of the Lomography 100 film says "made in China"...at least the 120 rolls do. The packs of 400 that I've had, the location of manufacture was obscured by a label placed there by the vendor. I think my 1350 Lomography 800 film pack said "Made in USA" but I dumped the cardboard carton long ago and used the last film in December.
To explain the issue that the original color palette is a great thing with film - but with scanning workflow it isn´t so much important as many scanning people see - just from my point.
I have an extreme example from a 5 years old shot ( today I would not repeat that practice from workflow ) :
wow - what film was it ????
with regards
PS : I can´t say for sure because I first have to look at it but if I remember correct it could have been Color Plus 200 - so what is remaining from original film characteristics ? In short : Nothing
PPS : The original shot was miserable because the model had a bad day - at the same evening when I got the results I saw " In the electric mist " - with Tommy Lee Jones. That inspired me to change anything into a misty look via post.
The new result I named " Gost " and yes for a look like a gost this model had a good day and made at last a fine job....
( some still found this shot miserable - some as you can see not.....
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