Candido 50, 200, 400 & 800 - 35mm Colour Negative Film Bundle

The whole Candido range, one roll of each: two daylight films and two tungsten, all cut from Kodak cinema stock.

Four speeds looks like a ladder. It is really two pairs, and the colour balance matters more than the number on the box.

The Candido 50, 200, 400 & 800 35mm Film Bundle contains one roll of each Candido Collective film. All four are Kodak Vision3 motion picture stock with the remjet removed, so they develop in standard C-41. Candido 50 and 400 are daylight balanced; Candido 200 and 800 are tungsten balanced. DX coded steel canisters, 36 exposures.

What Makes the Candido Bundle Habit-Forming

Cinema Film, Minus the Remjet

Kodak's Vision3 motion picture films carry a black remjet backing that ordinary C-41 labs cannot handle. Candido removes it before spooling, the same approach CineStill takes, so all four rolls can go to any colour lab without special instructions.

Two Daylight, Two Tungsten

This is the thing to understand before loading any of them. Candido 400 is based on Vision3 250D, and Candido 50 on daylight Vision3, sold by some retailers as Candido 50D. Candido 200 is based on Vision3 200T and Candido 800 on Vision3 500T, both balanced for tungsten light.

How They Compare With CineStill

Candido 800 shares its Vision3 500T base with CineStill 800T, and Candido 50 is sold as 50D, the stock behind CineStill 50D. Reviewers have found Candido 400 very close in look to CineStill 400D. Candido 200 has no CineStill counterpart at all, since CineStill's current 35mm colour range does not include a 200T.

Tungsten Film in Daylight

Shoot the 200 or 800 outdoors without correction and the negatives come out cool and blue. That can be corrected with an 85 filter on the lens or fixed in the scan, but it is worth knowing before you load either for a sunny afternoon. Under household bulbs and street lights, the same two films render far more naturally than a daylight film would.

Halation Comes Included

Removing the remjet also removes the film's anti-halation protection, so bright highlights and point light sources pick up a reddish glow. On night shots with the 800 it is often the whole point. On a bright daylight scene with the 50 it is far subtler.

Four Different Palettes

Despite the shared branding, these do not look alike. Reviewers describe Candido 200 as soft and fine grained, Candido 400 as smooth in contrast and fairly low in saturation, and Candido 800 as punchier with more visible grain. Candido 50, as you would expect at its speed, has the finest grain of the four.

Processed Together

All four are standard C-41 once the remjet is gone, and we develop, scan and print C-41 in house, so the four rolls can come back to you together.

What film is Candido based on?

Kodak Vision3 motion picture film with the remjet backing removed. Candido 200 is based on Vision3 200T, Candido 400 on Vision3 250D and Candido 800 on Vision3 500T. Candido 50 is daylight Vision3, sold by some retailers as Candido 50D. Removing the remjet lets all four go through standard C-41 at any lab.

Can you shoot Candido 200 and 800 in daylight?

Yes, but both are tungsten balanced, so daylight frames come out noticeably cool and blue unless corrected. An 85 orange filter on the lens fixes it at the cost of some speed, or the colour can be corrected when scanning. Indoors under tungsten or household lighting, neither needs correcting.

Best For Photographers who want to try the whole Candido range before settling on one, anyone curious about shooting cinema film in a stills camera, and people who shoot in all sorts of light across the same week, from bright beaches to night streets. Send all four to us together and we will develop, scan and print them in the same order.

Perfect for: CineStill shooters looking for an alternative, night photographers who want a daylight film in reserve, anyone who likes halation, and anyone whose dependency has quietly progressed from photography to cinematography.

Candido's founder, Harry Bell, has said he wants photographers to pay for flights rather than film, which is a reasonable ambition for a company selling respooled cinema stock. The films themselves are good, and the four of them together cover a remarkable range of light. Just check the colour balance on the box before you load one, because the ISO alone will not tell you what you need to know. More Candido film, posted from North Essex.