while looking up the various colour films my local photo shops carry, I found that a lot of them are actually respools and repackagings of other film (most Kodak), so I've tried to compile that information here to keep track of them all.
I'm personally not looking for "experimental" colour films or films that aren't "true colour", so I've excluded a number of those here, which are mostly:
- LomoChrome from Lomography
- RETOCOLOR from RETO Project
- various from KONO!
- various from Film Photography Project
Kodak's Vision3 movie film, which comes gigantic spools, is a popular choice for respooling into canisters. the C41 respools have the remjet backing removed so they produce some amount of halation, while the ECN2 respools have not but most photo labs (at least the ones near me) don't handle it.
| original film | C41 respools | ECN2 respools |
|---|---|---|
| Vision3 500T | CineStill 800T, RETO Amber T800, Reflx Lab 800 tungsten, Reformed Night 800, Candido 800, FilmNeverDie UMI 800 (?) | Flic Film Cine Colour 500T, Reflx Lab 500T, Silbersaltz35 500T, FilmNeverDie SUIBO 500T |
| Vision3 200T | RETO Amber T200, Reflx Lab 200 tungsten, Candido 200 | Flic Film Cine Colour 200T, Reflx Lab 200T, Silbersaltz35 200T, Hitchcock 200T 5213 |
| Vision3 250D | CineStill 400D, RETO Amber D400, Reflx Lab 400 daylight, Reformed Day 400, Candido 400, FilmNeverDie SORA 200 (?) | Flic Film Cine Colour 250D, Reflx Lab 250D, Silbersaltz35 250D, FilmNeverDie KUMO 250D |
| Vision3 50D | CineStill 50D, RETO Amber D100, Reflx Lab 100 daylight | Flic Film Cine Colour 50D, Reflx Lab 50D, Silbersaltz35 50D, Hitchcock 50D 5203 |
Kodak also makes intermediate cinema film used in postproduction between the camera film and the print film. these are Vision3 (2254) and Vision (2242/3242/5242),
which are low-ISO ECN2 films without the remjet backing. FPP's Low ISO Color film appears to be a respool of one of these.
the following are more Kodak films, but not all; those that don't seem to respooled or repackaged include the Porta series, Ektar 100, and ColorPlus 2001.
| original film | process | respools/repackagings |
|---|---|---|
| Aerocolor IV 2460 | C41 | Flic Film Elektra 100, Reflx Lab Pro 100, CatLABS X Film 100, SantaColor 100, Popho Luminar 100, Film Washi X, Karmir 160, FPP Color 125/Astrum 125 |
| Gold 800 | C41 | Lomography Color 800, Flic Flim Aurora 800 (?) |
| UltraMax 400 | C41 | Fujifilm 400, Lomography Color 400 |
| Gold 200 | C41 | Fujifilm 200, Lomography Color 200 |
| ProImage 100 | C41 | Lomography Color 100 (?) |
| Ektachrome 100D | E6 | Flic Film Chrome 100, Reflx Lab 100R, FPP Chrome, FilmNeverDie CHAMELEON 100 (?) |
finally, here are the films that I've found, all C41 process, that appear to be genuinely independent of Kodak:
- ORWO Wolfen NC500
- despite the name, this is an ISO 400 film
- Ilford Ilfocolor 400 is speculated to be a repackaging
- ORWO Wolfen NC400
- Harman Phoenix 200
and some further mysteries...
- KONO! Color 400: I haven't been able to find any additional information other than what their website says. I can't even find anyone who's reviewed it yet, despite having been out since October 2023
- FPP SUN Color: An ISO 1 film described as "a technical film designed for making contact prints in a lab", so it's not a Kodak cinema film respool, and I have no idea what kind of special film gets used for negative contact prints specifically
- Zombie 400 by FilmNeverDie and Mr. Negative: both of these brands mostly respool cine film, so I would expect that this is also some sort of repackaging, but I haven't found any information for this either
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Kodak doesn't even list this one on their website