Vision2 Color Negative Films

With the design of Kodak Vision2 500T color negative film, Kodak introduced film technology optimized for both the conventional optical and digital post-production worlds. While resolution and grain improvements comprise a large part of the advances offered by this new technology, film sensitometry and color reproduction were also carefully engineered to facilitate improvements in neutral scale control and digital post-production productivity. All of this was made possible by silver halide technologies that significantly reduced grain and film-building technologies that shaped a new standard of photographic performance in a world of digital applications.

Color Negative Film for the Digital Future
“A New Color Negative Film for the Digital Future,” Motion Imaging Journal, October/November 2004

The Kodak team awarded the Scientific and Technical Oscar for development of the Vision2 Color Negative Film family - left to right are Michael Ryan, Pat Jeffries, CEO Antonio Perez, Jim Friday and David Long

An excerpt from the following paper originally published in SMPTE's Motion Imaging Journal summarizing the technology built into the Vision2 films