Kodak 6031330 Professional Ektar 100/36 Colour Negative Film

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Kodak Ektar 100 36 Exp Colour Print Film is great for commercial photographers and amateurs alike, for nature, travel, fashion and product photography where the colour is really important. The vivid colours that are its strength and that make your landscapes and flowers pop will often make skin tones too red.

I have to say that I'm leaning toward Portra 400 as my primary color film, with odds and ends of different expired emulsions to just experiment and play with. And that’s exactly what they do with Ektar 100, saying it ‘offers the finest, smoothest grain of any color negative film available today’. Kodak Ektar 100 has one of the best dynamic ranges and consistently produces incredibly striking scenes. A late attempt to win in the compact market was hit by the rise of mobile photography and bankruptcy followed in 2012.The film’s palette is nuanced and is unlikely to be easily replicable by cranking up the “saturation” slider. I can comfortable scan this film at 3600 and 6400 in most cases and it still feels sharp and beautiful. I love using Ektar too, great fine color film, but I usually don’t get such saturated results, the color balance is generally very good and subtle on all tones. At ISO 100, it’s half the speed of the budget Kodak Gold and Kodak ColorPlus and only 1/4 the speed of the premium Kodak Potra 400.

As you can see, this film can be very versatile as you learn to recognize the lighting conditions and use it to your advantage. Of all the films I exposed so far the Ektar 100 – especially in combination with Silbersalz35’s ECN-2 processing – is clearly my favorite. If you use an AE camera like Aukje then you also make sure that when the camera gets fooled by bright backlight then you'll still be safe at 100 as you have two-stops of light to make up for the mis-read metering by the camera. Field of view (FOV) refers to the width of the area visible through the binoculars at a specified distance. As a heads up, this article is geared towards the beginner, but if you’re a seasoned film pro I think you’ll find some useful information in here too.Being a medium/low speed film, I was first enticed by the idea of low grain, accompanied by the claims of sharp, vibrant images. Even though the colors of Ektar 100 are impressive, you do have to make sure it’s exposed properly to get the best results.

For me the main differences were a slight sharpness advantage to Ektar, and much better tolerance to over-exposure from the Portra. I’ve been shooting Ektar on and off for the past five years while living in Thailand and Canada with a few different cameras.

Fortunately the photography business has survived under the Kodak Alaris name - based in Hertfordshire, England - and they have delighted the analogue industry by pledging continued support for film production and the promise of bringing back old favourite emulsions.

So if you get a bunch of it today, you are almost certainly going to pay less for it than a year later. Having shot this film in all kinds of weather conditions, I believe that some of the best images I got from it came during the snow days. With that said, the exposure latitude is not the best and if you’re shooting portraits, it’s best to keep the exposure as even as possible. Ektar started as a color 35mm and 120 semi-professional film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1989, which used the common C-41 process.Using terms like the most, the least, the best, or the worst in my reviews would seem daft, as they’re all mainly my subjective opinion anyway. com are the exclusive property of the named author (except where stated otherwise) and are protected by copyright. The images that are underexposed tend to render muddy colors and overexposed images tend to look slightly washed out.