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 FE Date (1989) is a fully automatic 35mm point-and-shoot camera with an integrated quartz date-imprint back -- the feature that distinguishes it from the base Konica FE. Konica produced it as the camera market polarized sharply between premium compacts (Big Mini, Hexar AF) and mass-market autoloaders; the FE Date sits firmly in the second category. The lens is a fixed prime reported at around 35mm, the shutter is program-only, and DX-coding reads ISO automatically from the film cassette. No manual exposure override is provided.
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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 late-1980s Konica program-auto compact with built-in date imprinting, aimed squarely at the family snapshot market.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 35mm |
| Lens | ~35mm f/~3.8 (fixed) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Shutter | Program auto, ~1/500s max |
| Meter | Center-weighted silicon |
| DX coding | Yes (ISO 50-3200) |
| Focus | Active infrared AF |
| Flash | Built-in auto-pop |
| Date back | Quartz imprint |
| Battery | 2x CR123A or 2x AA |
By the late 1980s Konica was producing a wide matrix of consumer compacts priced from under 10,000 yen to premium territory. The FE line occupied mid-range slots, competing with similar offerings from Olympus (AF-1 series), Fuji (DL series), and Canon (Prima series). The addition of a date back was a near-universal marketing differentiator in the Japanese domestic and export markets from roughly 1987 onward; almost every model in the FE / MR tier received a "Date" variant.
The Konica FE Date was sold through general electronics retailers rather than specialist camera shops, and it received little coverage in specialist photography press. It was replaced in product catalogs by subsequent compact families as Konica restructured its consumer division in the early 1990s.
The FE Date has no particular cultural significance and was not associated with professional or fine-art photography. Its current relevance is as an inexpensive, working, fully automatic 35mm compact for casual film shooters who want date imprinting. Used examples regularly appear at low prices. The main practical virtue is simplicity: load film, point, shoot.
For archivists and collectors the date back is historically useful -- dated photographs from family albums can be cross-referenced against the embedded date stamp.
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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