Kodak Gold 200 (1997)

Kodak Gold 200 from 1997 was a quintessential consumer color negative film, designed to be an excellent, accessible all-purpose stock. It was characterized by its inherent warm color balance, which gave images a pleasant, slightly golden or reddish-yellow glow, making it particularly flattering for skin tones and scenes shot during the "Golden Hour." While it provided decent sharpness and fine grain for a 200-speed consumer film of that time, its primary strength was its reliable wide exposure latitude, making it very forgiving of minor metering errors. It produced a slightly saturated but natural look that defined much of the casual photography aesthetic of the late 1990s.