Who's Shooting the New Gold 200 120 Right Now?

braxus · Apr 17, 2022

I got my 5 rolls over a week ago now. I shot one roll right away in 645, then 3 more yesterday on 6x7 at a tulip festival here in town, and the last roll today on location. All dropped off at the camera store to get developed. I should be picking them up in 2 weeks and doing my own video on them. While at the store, I picked up 3 more rolls of it. In the freezer they went. I see a couple new videos on Youtube about it now, but still not as many as I'd thought I'd see. I'll get mine on there in 2 weeks I assume.

So who else is shooting this stuff now? Im not going hog wild buying tons of it, as I need to use up the film in the freezer I already have. Im hoping it looks good in my scans. Weather has been overcast to slightly sunny for the ones I shot, so the films yellow look should help warm it up.

McDiesel · Apr 17, 2022

I am finishing my first roll. Do not expect anything surprising. It is just a bigger negative of Gold 200, probably the most familiar and reviewed-to-death emulsion in the world. I can't think of anything that's worthy of a video.

Bob_Brooks · Apr 17, 2022

I shot, deved, and printed a roll a few days ago on some glossy paper, and I LOVE it! I would use gold over the Portra line any day.

braxus · Apr 17, 2022

I take back the one comment. I just checked Youtube and in the last few days, there is like a dozen new videos on it now. Yes it looks like Gold, but better.

Alan Edward Klein · Apr 18, 2022

The question is is it easy or hard to scan compared to let's say Portra and Ektar?

McDiesel · Apr 18, 2022

@Alan Edward Klein what makes a film harder/easier to scan? Curling?

Alan Edward Klein · Apr 18, 2022

McDiesel said:
@Alan Edward Klein what makes a film harder/easier to scan? Curling?

I don't know what makes it better. But Kodak claims that Portra and Ektar are made for better scanning. I don't know what they say about Gold.

pentaxuser · Apr 18, 2022

Alan Edward Klein said:
I don't know what makes it better. But Kodak claims that Portra and Ektar are made for better scanning. I don't know what they say about Gold.

Interesting. Does Kodak explain what it is that Portra and Ektar have in their structure that makes them better for scanning?

Thanks

pentaxuser

McDiesel · Apr 18, 2022

@Alan Edward Klein I found some interesting old posts on the topic.

Agulliver · Apr 19, 2022

In my recent chat with Andy Church of Kodak-Alaris, he did say that it's important to ensure labs know it's Gold and are prepared to scan it appropriately. It's not that it's difficult to scan, but that so many labs are now set up (by default) to scan Portra or Ektar in 120 that they might not use the correct profile.

Alan Edward Klein · Apr 19, 2022

Agulliver said:
In my recent chat with Andy Church of Kodak-Alaris, he did say that it's important to ensure labs know it's Gold and are prepared to scan it appropriately. It's not that it's difficult to scan, but that so many labs are now set up (by default) to scan Portra or Ektar in 120 that they might not use the correct profile.

Where do the labs get the profile to begin with for any film?

GarageBoy · Apr 19, 2022

They should already have the profile - Gold's been around forever

I assume that noritsu or fuji gets them directly from the mfg, or they develop their own

Jman13 · Apr 19, 2022

I ran a roll through my Mamiya 645 about two weeks ago. Came out fine....looks decent, though I'd say nothing special. Good detail, moderate grain. I prefer Ektar overall. Here are some shots from that roll. I scan using a light table and my Canon R5 with Laowa 100mm Macro to shoot the negatives, and convert in Negative Lab Pro. M645 with 35/3.5, 80/2.8 and 150/3.5 on Gold 200:

Agulliver · Apr 20, 2022

The point Mr. Church was making was that labs aren't using the correct profiles with Gold in 120 as they've not had Gold in 120 in recent times. They're not expecting it.

I would assume he knows whereof he speaks, and that this was feedback from people testing the reintroduced film. But our chat was necessarily quite short and the actual subject was something different.

Ernst-Jan · Apr 21, 2022

I have loaded my first roll today in my RB67. It's going to be a Kodak only weekend: Kodak Gold and Verichrome Pan

Agulliver · Apr 22, 2022

I intend to shoot a roll tomorrow in my Kiev 6C, weather should be light cloud which is perfect for Gold 200.

DREW WILEY · Apr 22, 2022

Gold has that stereotypical old color neg bias towards dumping all warm neutrals, tans, oranges, reddish tones, etc, indiscriminately into the "pleasing skintone" category, with many such hues ending up pumpkin-colored. It's evident as heck even in that set of images last posted. Greens also trend cyan, or as they called it in the old days, "poison green". Ektar, on the other hand, is far more neutrally balanced (plus higer contrast), but with a bit of cyan-blue repro conflict instead. Depends what kind of look one if after; so it's nice to have a choice, even though I'll personally stick with Ektar for my own needs.

I just left some 4X5 sheets at the lab for C41 processing a couple hours ago. I should ask them about profiling Gold when I return to pick up the sheets. They sell it there, and digitally output on Fuji Superia paper, or else inkjet if someone prefers that. I do all my own color printing optically in the darkroom. But there's quite a trend these days for people to shoot real film and than have a small lab do a scan and the printing for them.

grat · Apr 22, 2022

Jman13 said:
I ran a roll through my Mamiya 645 about two weeks ago. Came out fine....looks decent, though I'd say nothing special. Good detail, moderate grain. I prefer Ektar overall.

I believe Kodak's response would be "Working as intended".

Ernst-Jan · Apr 23, 2022

Ernst-Jan said:
I have loaded my first roll today in my RB67. It's going to be a Kodak only weekend: Kodak Gold and Verichrome Pan

So far shot 2 rolls of Gold. Third one is loaded.

braxus · Apr 23, 2022

I shot another roll yesterday and the sun is out today, so Im going to do yet another roll. I'll be dropping it off at the camera store today for the lab, and picking up my 6 rolls of C41 120 they did last time. 5 of those rolls are Gold 200. I think I shoot more color 120 now, since Gold 200 came out. Today will be my 7th roll so far.

Huss · Apr 23, 2022

Jman13 said:
I ran a roll through my Mamiya 645 about two weeks ago. Came out fine....looks decent, though I'd say nothing special. Good detail, moderate grain. I prefer Ektar overall. Here are some shots from that roll. I scan using a light table and my Canon R5 with Laowa 100mm Macro to shoot the negatives, and convert in Negative Lab Pro. M645 with 35/3.5, 80/2.8 and 150/3.5 on Gold 200:

Looks great! Nice work.

BAC1967 · Apr 23, 2022

A few recent shots with a Rolleicord Va. first two were with an overcast sky.

Emma by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Flocked by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Golden Gate Bridge by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

1947 Ford 1-Ton Panel Truck by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

braxus · Apr 25, 2022

Curious. What is the stock situation like out there for this film for you guys? Most places seem to be out of stock, while waiting another month or more for new stock to come in. My store still has rolls of this, but their store is known to me to not sell a lot of film to users that come in. Their other branches sell more.

braxus · May 1, 2022

I posted my video of Gold 200 finally, after I picked up the last rolls this morning, and scanned them up. Then did the video. I think it turned out rather well considering, other then the odd editing mistake. My computer needs more memory, as it won't play through my 4K files without breaking up. Makes it hard to edit when you can't see what you're looking at. Keep in mind my scans are not the typical lab scan, so my results may vary a bit from what they offer. Take a look.

Alan Edward Klein · May 1, 2022

braxus said:
I posted my video of Gold 200 finally, after I picked up the last rolls this morning, and scanned them up. Then did the video. I think it turned out rather well considering, other then the odd editing mistake. My computer needs more memory, as it won't play through my 4K files without breaking up. Makes it hard to edit when you can't see what you're looking at. Keep in mind my scans are not the typical lab scan, so my results may vary a bit from what they offer. Take a look.

Nice slideshow and video. Nice pictures. Which video program do you use?

Who's Shooting the New Gold 200 120 Right Now?

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