The Best Cheap 35mm Colour Films | Kodak's Budget Film Stocks

Kodak makes 4 different budget stocks for 35mm film photography, and in this video, I go through my experiences taking photographs which each of these film stocks and also (for the first time ever) take a look at the comments I've received on the full reviews.

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[renatamachadomedeiros]

I like the granite photos on ColorPlus ! Nice !

[shervinsardari]

100% agree with your take on UltraMax. It retains very little highlight detail, the colors often look muddy and unpleasent, and it somehow has an unnatural "digital" look to it that reminds me of a cheap compact camera from 2008.

[cameronwilson]

Lately I have been shooting some of these slower speed films hand held on my canon EOS with an image stabiliser lens and wow! Shooting film down to 1sec with sharp images hand held is like reversing the rotation of the earth.

[spyratekodaks]

I generally shoot portraits!! I've shot every single one of the films you mentioned and I found ultramax to be quite good!! Personally I prefer it to gold because as you said "it can get too gold". Color plus was surprisingly super good for portraits. However I shot it during a cloudy day without direct sunlight!! Lastly I shot pro image pushed to 200 and it was quite good!! I would like to shoot it again but it being 100 iso and more expensive doesn't help!!

[Anthony-fzye]

My guess before watching: depends on personal taste but Gold 200 is semi flexible being a 200 stock and has v fine grain and good latitude
My fav atm of the bunch: Colorplus
My least fav: Ultramax

[TruePoindexter]

Funny enough I've come to the same conclusions. Pro Image 100 and Color Plus 200 are preferred with Gold 200 being OK and Ultramax 400 being decidedly meh. That said I think my own bias comes from throwing the film at less-than-ideal situations (low-light, toy cameras, lomography etc) which I would not subject a film like Pro Image 100 to. I shot a roll of Ultramax 400 recently rated at ISO 200 for just general snapshots and found the results appealing. Recently I've been shooting test charts at various ISOs with each of the tilms - it might be fun to do a blind comparison and see if people can guess which is which.

[thorstenjaspert]

The UltraMax400 is contrasty. If you scan it yourself you should do it with a flat, linear "curve". With it you can optimize the shadow contrast an pull out better details. In the second step you process the pictures in a program of your choice.

[rettercritical]

Hey man, its time to start shooting on some slide film ... Velvia, Provia, Ektachrome. Would be great to see you shoot on it and break it down.

[davidian]

This is a good video, you should keep uploading.

[cassandralesh]

I just knew film was going away forever back in the mid 2000's but I kept my ESO Elan IIE even though I bought a digital ESO. I miss my Kodak gold

[ToyStoryNBarneyFan]

From my experience with Ultramax, I really enjoy the film, it’s definitely more versatile in terms of the speed of the film, it’s not too high speed and it’s not too low speed, it’s perfect for a lot of situations. I do respect your opinion on Ultramax and it’s not the film for everyone, I’m just speaking from my experience with it and it passes as a great option for consumer film

[IanONeal]

I love that sinister voodoo music that comes over when you dejectedly sigh, 'Ultramax...' 😆 TBF to Ultramax, it's really useful where I live (England) in the colder months. I never reach for it in Summer but the darker, gloomier days are no good for ColorPlus and Gold. Ultramax works well in those seasons. I used it to shoot Manchester in dreary mid-December when we only have pale light between 0900 and 1530.

[yasinnabi]

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