Konica Minolta Color Centuria Super 200

I used this film back in 1998, found the negatives last week when I wanted to try out my new Nikon V ED scanner.

I started off scanning some Superia 200 I'd shot off as a test - I was not at all impressed by the amount of grain in the sky.

I then found negatives the 1998 negatives, scanned them in an was amazed by the lack of grain and the detail. OK, I'm not talking slide levels here, but the difference between Fuji 200 was there.

One thing I will say is the colour before messing were off (also seen in the original prints) so I can only recommend this film if its going through a scanner and being colour corrected.

This film is now available very cheap, I've just shot off some dated October 2005 and they've come back fine - again the colours were off but this was easilt corrected in Photoshop.

Grain, takes punishment

Colours are off.

Fuji Superia 200

I've only used one roll of this film, but I already hate it. They say that the color under flash is "brilliant", but all I see is severly off toned colors. They probably shifted the color just so that the color looks more saturated in flash condition. Went through a whole roll with my Canon A-1.. which has always givin me good results. But the film just wouldn't keep up. *Please note that the film went through Fuji's C-41 machine and printed with Fuji Frontier machine, and did my own corrections. I'm noting this here because I don't know what results it will bring when the film went through Konica's CNK-4 process.

Does it have any? I got these for free, so I don't even know if they're worth the price.

Weird balance of color saturation. Skin tones turn severly magenta under flash. Negatives look too fancy, distractive (just a little thing, but i don't like it)

For color prints - Fuji's Reala, NP-series, other Superia's Kodak Gold, Max

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