Color Negative Films

Most consumers and professional photographers use color negative films to produce color prints. Kodak has a long tradition of technology invention and product design for the world's leading color negative film products.

These products span the range of photographic speeds from ISO 100 to 1000. They can be used under a full range of photographic conditions. Applications range from consumer snapshots to portrait and wedding photography, photojournalism, and advertising photography.

The U.S. brand names for Kodak consumer color negative films are:

High Definition MAX Versatility Bright Sun Black and White ADVANTIX Films films for One-Time-Use Cameras

KODAK PROFESSIONAL color negative films (in 135, 120/220, and sheet formats) are known in the U.S., as:

• PORTRA
• SUPRA

Color negative films are highly complex chemical structures combining many layers of light-sensitive silver halide emulsions, dye-forming chemicals (couplers), and image-modifying chemicals. 

When exposed to light, silver halide emulsions record a scene in a latent image. During development, bleaching, and fixing steps, this latent image is converted into a color-dye image. That color-dye image can be scanned and then digitally stored, transmitted, manipulated, and printed. Or it can be printed directly onto color paper.

Kodak researchers who work on color negative film technologies and products talk with customers to learn how to meet the needs of photographers everywhere. They integrate this knowledge with new technical advances in order to produce films that yield better pictures.

On our cross-functional teams, synthetic and physical chemists, emulsion scientists, colloid chemists, coating experts and manufacturing engineers work together to design and evaluate new technologies. The most promising new technologies are integrated and developed into new Kodak products which are manufactured in Kodak's plants around the world.