Fujifilm Fujicolor 100

Fujicolor 100 is the consumer C-41 stock Fuji has sold under various box designs since the 1980s, currently produced as a budget-tier color negative for the Asian market and exported in small quantities elsewhere. The current emulsion is closely related to the Industrial 100 stock Fuji sold in bulk B2B packaging in Japan until 2020, and the chemistry shares ancestry with the Superia 100 line discontinued in 2009. Working out which Fujicolor 100 box contains which formulation is a forum exercise that has filled hundreds of threads.

Grain is fine for a consumer 100-speed stock. Datasheet figures track close to Superia 100, with diffuse RMS granularity around 4 and resolving power near 125 lines per millimeter. The color signature leans cooler than Kodak Gold 100 by a noticeable margin, with restrained reds, clean blues, and the slight green-yellow bias that defines Fuji's print palette. Skin tones come back natural rather than warmed.

The fourth color layer that defined Superia 100 is not present in current Fujicolor 100 boxes sold outside Japan. That trade-off matters under fluorescent and mixed lighting, where the green cast common in office and gymnasium scenes is harder to correct out of scans. For outdoor daylight work the difference is invisible. For indoor mixed-light snapshooting it shows, particularly against Kodak ColorPlus 200 of the same price tier.

Latitude is wide. Two stops of overexposure prints fine; a stop under is recoverable. Many photographers rate it at ISO 80 to get a thicker negative and easier scans.

Format availability has shrunk. The film ships in 35mm only; 120 was dropped years ago. Distribution outside Japan is patchy, with grey-market import the only reliable channel.

Reciprocity exponent is 1.20. Zone Light Meter applies the correction past one second, so a 30-second meter reading climbs to about a minute at the negative. The Superia-era datasheet recommended color compensation starting at four seconds, tighter than most C-41 stocks. For tripod work past a few seconds the correction matters.