Note:
There's an ISO 200 version as well. Found it being marketed in Europe.
Availablility may vary on this in North America.
Pulled up the PDF data sheet on the ISO 400 hi-definition and compared it
to the old PDF data sheet for Royal Gold 400. They were absolutely
identical except the new one deletes reciprocity failure information
(exposure compensation and filtering). Went to the U.K. site and found the
ISO 200 version, but no data sheet for it. However, by its description,
I'd bet dollars to donuts it's Royal Gold 200.
Both are significantly finer grained than what used to be called "Kodak
Gold 200" (now "Bright Sun and Flash") and "Kodak Gold 400" (now "Kodak Max
Versatility"). The Royal Gold films were, IMO, slightly more saturated and
seemed a bit contrastier. Decent with skin tones though.
Kodak keeps changing the names:
Gold 400 -> Max -> Max Versatility
Gold 800 -> Max Zoom -> Max Versatility Plus
[and I fail to see how the extreme graininess of it is a "plus"]
My Opinion About Hi-Definition:
I wish Kodak still made Royal Gold 25 (aka Ektar 25) and Royal Gold 100.
-- John
At 07:49 PM 7/25/03, you wrote:
John Lind's 7/1/03 (US style date) post agrues persuasively that is a
rebranding of Kodak Royal Gold 400.
I've used it under the old name and found it was indeed quite fine grain
for 400 speed film, but no better, I think, than Supra or Portra.
Moose
Clendon Gibson wrote:
I have been seing adds on TV about a film from Kodak that is supposed to
be higher resolution.
Has anybody used this new film? Did you like it?
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