C41
Kodak Portra 400
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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The Konica C35 V (1971) is a simplified variant in the C35 compact family, carrying a fixed Hexanon 38mm f/2.8 lens in a compact zone-focus body. The C35 platform had debuted in 1968 as one of the smallest 35mm cameras of its era, and Konica produced a range of variants targeting different price points and feature sets throughout the early 1970s. The C35 V represents the lower end of the family - a no-frills viewfinder camera intended for budget-conscious buyers who still wanted Konica's optical quality.
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C41
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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Kodak Gold 200 is a daylight-balanced C-41 color negative film with warm color, moderate grain, and a classic consumer-film look.
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Kodak UltraMax 400 is a versatile consumer-grade ISO 400 daylight-balanced color negative film with T-grain emulsion, delivering warm Kodak colors, fine-for-speed grain (PGI 46), and wide exposure latitude. Currently in production and available globally as a single-roll and multi-pack.
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A pared-down 1971 viewfinder compact riding the C35 platform with Hexanon glass.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 35mm |
| Lens | Hexanon 38mm f/2.8 (fixed) |
| Year introduced | 1971 |
| Shutter | Leaf, ~1/30s - 1/650s |
| Modes | Program |
| Finder | Direct-vision optical |
| Focus | Zone (scale focus) |
The original Konica C35 launched in 1968 and was briefly the world's smallest full-frame 35mm camera. Its success prompted Konishiroku to build out the C35 line extensively: the Flashmatic (1970) introduced automatic flash control, the E&L (1974) added a CdS meter window on the front, the MF (1978) brought motorized film advance, and the EF and EF3 variants followed with built-in electronic flash. The C35 V appears to be a simplified viewfinder-only variant of the early 1970s period, positioned below the core feature set.
The C35 family as a whole was highly influential. Its size and the quality of the Hexanon 38/2.8 set benchmarks for the subsequent decade of Japanese compact camera development. The Olympus XA (1979) and subsequent premium compacts owed a conceptual debt to what Konica proved was possible with the C35 platform. Within the family, the lower-specification variants like the C35 V demonstrate Konica's practice of efficiently tiering its market coverage: the same optical formula in multiple feature configurations.
The 38mm focal length is notable - marginally wider than a standard 40mm, it gives slightly more context in the frame while remaining compact.
C41
Kodak ColorPlus 200 is an affordable, consumer-oriented daylight-balanced color negative film at ISO 200. Known for warm, slightly muted color rendition, fine grain, and wide exposure latitude, it is currently in production and widely available in Asia and select global markets.
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Kodak Tri-X 400 is a classic black-and-white film known for strong tonality, visible grain, and documentary character.
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