Kodak Gold 200 look for Lightroom & Sony Alpha
Gold 200 is the drugstore film that turned into an aesthetic: a golden overall cast, punchy yellows and reds, shadows that lean slightly green, and blacks that never quite reach black. Cheap film chemistry became a look people now deliberately buy.
How to shoot and edit it
- Sunlight is the point. Gold in flat grey light just looks yellow.
- Let shadows go a bit green — that cast is the film's fingerprint.
- Grain should be visible. Too clean and it reads as a warm filter instead of film.
What you'll get
A Lightroom Classic preset you can import as a .xmp, a Sony Alpha Creative Look recipe for new-menu bodies, and a Picture Profile recipe that works on every Alpha back to the A7 III — all tuned to this look, in one generation.
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Make your own version of Kodak Gold 200 look
Adjust the description, add a reference photo, or import a preset you already own — Preset Lab returns the Lightroom values and the in-camera settings together.
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