Konica Centuria Super 100

The Centuria Super line was Konica's February 2002 refresh of the consumer color range, dropping into a market where Fuji and Kodak had pushed their 100-speed stocks toward finer grain. Konica's answer was an emulsion update branded MCC for Multi-Coated Crystal and UCC for Ultra Consistent Crystal. The datasheet header reading Centuria Super 100 carries a February 2002 date stamp, which is the cleanest way to tell a Super box from the older 1999 Centuria stock.

ISO 100/21, triacetate base, daylight balance, DX-code 26-2. Processing is standard C-41 or the Konica CNK-4 chemistry most labs of the era could run. The Super 100 datasheet lists 35mm only; any 120 roll claiming Centuria Super branding is almost certainly older 1999 Centuria carried over.

The rendering is what Konica called natural color reproduction, which meant skin tones biased less warm than Kodak Gold 100 and less green than Fujicolor 100. Grain at box speed is tighter than the slower-speed competition because MCC was a finer-crystal architecture aimed at improving the 4x6 drugstore print. Saturation pulls back compared to the Super 200 and 400 speeds in the same family, which sounds backward but reflects the choice for a portrait-friendly stock at the slow end.

Pushing was never a strength of the Super line. Konica rated it at box speed, unlike Portra of the same era. A field rule for freezer-stock is to rate it at 80 indoors and 100 outdoors. Konica merged with Minolta in August 2003 and the imaging division closed in March 2006. DNP relaunched the Centuria brand briefly between 2007 and 2009 with what some sources identify as rebadged Kodacolor rather than a true Konica coating.

Reciprocity exponent is 1.20. Zone Light Meter applies the correction past one second. A metered 30-second exposure becomes about 60 seconds at the negative. The datasheet specifies no compensation from 1/10000 to one full second and a single stop at ten seconds, consistent with the 1.20 curve.