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Contents

• Description
  • 135 Format Coding Information
• Darkroom Recommendations
• Storage and Handling
• Exposure
  • Film Speed:
  • Daylight
  • Existing Light
  • Electronic Flash
  • Fluorescent and High-Intensity Discharge Lights
  • Adjustments for Long and Short Exposures
• Processing
• Image Structure
  • Print Grain Index
• Judging Negative Exposures
• Printing Negatives
• More Information
• Curves

Description

KODAK ROYAL GOLD 400 Film is the world's finest grain 400-speed color print film. It provides a unique balance of fine grain, sharpness, color reproduction, and contrast to yield results with excellent clarity and enlargement capability. This multi-purpose film is designed for exposure with daylight or electronic flash. You can also obtain pleasing results under most existing-light sources without filters.

ROYAL GOLD 400 Film is a member of the "Select Series" of Kodak films. The Select Series offers serious snapshooters and photo enthusiasts the widest selection of high-performance films. Choose from KODAK ROYAL GOLD Films for prints, or KODACHROME or KODAK ELITE Chrome Films for slides.

135 Format Coding Information

Darkroom Recommendations

Handle unprocessed film in total darkness. Do not use a safelight.

Process this film in total darkness through the bleach step in Process C-41.

Storage and Handling

Load and unload your camers in subdued light.

Store unexposed film at 21°C (70°F) or lower in the original sealed package. Always store film (exposed or unexposed) in a cool, dry place. Process film as soon as possible after exposure.

Protect negatives from strong light, and store them in a cool, dry place. For more information on storing negatives, see KODAK Publication No. E-30, Storage and Care of KODAK Photographic Materials—Before and After Processing.

Exposure

Film Speed:

Use these speed numbers in the table below with cameras marked for ISO, ASA, or DIN speeds or exposure indexes. Do not change the ISO-speed setting when metering through a filter.

Daylight

Use the exposures in the table below for average frontlit subjects from 2 hours after sunrise to 2 hours before sunset.

Existing Light

Electronic Flash

Use the guide numbers in the following table below as starting point for your equipment. Select the unit output closest to the number given by your flash manufacturer. Then find the guide number for feet or metres.

To determine the lens opening, divide the guide number by the flash-to-subject distance. If negatives are consistently too dense (overexposed), use a higher guide number; if they are too thin (underexposed), use a lower number.

Fluorescent and High-Intensity Discharge Lights

Use the color-compensating filters and exposure adjustments in the following tables as starting points to expose this film under fluorescent or high-intensity discharge lamps. For critical applications, make a series of test exposures under your actual conditions.

To avoid the brightness and color variations that occur during a single alternating-current cycle, use exposure times of 1/60 second or longer with fluorescent lamps; with high-intensity discharge lamps, use exposure times of 1/125 second or longer.

Note: When you don't know the type of fluorescent lamps, try a 10C + 20M filter combination and increase exposure by 2/3 stop; color rendition will probably be less than optimum.

Note: Some primary color filters were used in the tables above to reduce the number of filters and keep the exposure adjustment to a minimum. Red filters were substituted for equivalent filtration in magenta and yellow. Blue filters were substituted for equivalent filtration in cyan and magenta.

Adjustments for Long and Short Exposures

Exposures longer than 10 seconds may require exposure compensation and filtration. For critical applications, may test under your conditions.

Processing

Process KODAK ROYAL GOLD 400 Film in KODAK FLEXICOLOR Chemicals for Process C-41. For more information, see KODAK Publication No. Z-131, Using KODAK FLEXICOLOR Chemicals.

Image Structure

Print Grain Index

The Print Grain Index number printed in this publication applies to the following standards:

Judging Negative Exposures

You can check the exposure level with a suitable electronic densitometer equipped with a filter such as a KODAK WRATTEN Gelatin Filter No. 92 or the red filter for Status M densitomerty. Depending on the subject and the light source used for exposure, a normally exposed and processed color negative measured through the red filter should have the approximate densities listed below. Because of the extreme range in skin color, use these red density values for a normally lighted forehead only as a guide. For best results, use a KODAK Gray Card (gray side).

Printing Negatives

You can make color prints from negatives by enlarging/printing them on KODAK EKTACOLOR Edge or ROYAL Papers and KODAK PROFESSIONAL DURAFLEX Print Material.

Make color transparencies by printing negatives on KODAK VERICOLOR Print Film, KODAK VERICOLOR Slide Film, or KODAK PROFESSIONAL DURATRANS or KODAK DURACLEAR PROFESSIONAL Display Material.

Make black-and-white prints on KODAK PANALURE SELECT RC Papers for conventional black and white processing, or on KODAK EKTAMAX RA Professional Paper for Process RA-4.

More Information

Kodak has many publications to assist you with information on Kodak products, equipment, and materials.

Note: The Kodak materials described in this publication for use with KODAK ROYAL GOLD 400 Film are available from dealers who supply Kodak products. You can use other materials, but you may not obtain similar results.

Curves¹

These graphs are designed to be printed in landscape mode. They will print properly on most printers in their current page set-up of 100%. However, some printers may require adjustments to the browser page set-up in order to have the graph print on a single 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet of paper.

Characteristic:

Spectral Sensitivity

Spectral Dye Density:

Note: This publication is subject to change without notice. If you have questions or need assistance, contact your local Kodak representative.

Kodak, Kodak Professional, Gold, Royal Gold, Ektacolor, Flexicolor, Wratten, Duraflex, Vericolor, Duratrans, Duraclear, Ektamax, and Panalure are trademarks.

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Footnotes

E-2509  • October, 1999