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 Olympus Quick Shooter is a fixed-focus 35mm compact introduced in 1986, positioned at the entry level of Olympus's consumer compact lineup. The camera offers no focusing adjustment; a fixed-focus lens renders subjects from approximately one metre to infinity acceptably sharp at its working aperture, a design choice that removes user error from the focusing step entirely. Exposure is programmed and automatic, DX coding reads film ISO from the cassette, and the built-in flash fires automatically when needed.
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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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About this camera
A 1986 fixed-focus 35mm compact designed for reliable, no-adjustment snapshot photography.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 35mm (24x36mm) |
| Lens | ~35mm Zuiko, fixed-focus |
| Shutter | ~1s - 1/200s, programmed electronic |
| Meter | TTL center-weighted |
| Exposure modes | Program (auto) |
| Viewfinder | Optical brightline |
| ISO range | 100 - 3200 (DX coded) |
| Battery | 2x AA |
| Flash | Built-in, auto |
| Focus | Fixed (zone focus, not adjustable) |
| Year | 1986 |
By 1986 the consumer 35mm compact market had fragmented into several tiers: premium compacts with sharp glass and precise autofocus (Olympus XA, Contax T), mid-range autofocus compacts (Olympus AF-1), and budget fixed-focus point-and-shoots. The Quick Shooter occupies the budget tier.
Olympus had already demonstrated with the XA series that compact camera design could be sophisticated. The Quick Shooter represents a different calculation: that a large segment of casual photographers would be better served by a camera that simply worked every time, at the cost of image quality in edge cases where autofocus would have made a difference.
Fixed-focus compacts of this type proliferated in the mid-to-late 1980s across all major brands. Many were sold under house brands or distributed through non-photographic retail channels. The Quick Shooter carried the Olympus name and Zuiko optics, giving it a degree of brand credibility the cheaper no-name alternatives lacked.
Olympus continued the Quick Shooter line with at least one variant before the product name was folded into other compact series.
The Quick Shooter is historically useful as a representative of the budget-fixed-focus tier that made 35mm photography accessible to a mass consumer audience in the late 1980s. These cameras - reliable, affordable, and idiot-proof - drove film consumption volume more than the premium compacts that attract collector attention today.
For current film photographers, a working Quick Shooter provides a genuinely usable camera at minimal cost. Fixed-focus lenses in this era are often stopped down enough to deliver reasonable sharpness across a wide subject range. The absence of autofocus means one fewer system to fail in an old camera.
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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