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Kodak 6031330 Professional Ektar 100/36 Colour Negative Film

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I began writing this article in my head a long time ago, but kept on trying some new experiment or other with Ektar 100, and time got away from me! With summer light about to hit the Northern Hemisphere, I thought this would be a good time to share my experiments and thoughts on pushing Kodak Ektar 100 film two extra stops — in other words, shooting it and developing it as if it were ISO 400.

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Recommended uses of Ektar 100, in Kodak’s words and not mine, are nature, travel, outdoor, fashion, and product photography. Note that this list doesn’t include portraits.

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As Kodak say themselves on the Pro Image datasheet, this film features high colour saturation, accurate colour and pleasing skin-tone reproduction. There’s a reason Portra is just two letters different to portrait and Ektar isn’t. Unless you want those red faces, go with the former. So with all said and done, this Kodak Ektar 100 is a relatively young film with a historic name. As well as the aforementioned finest, smoothest grain of any color negative film available today, it also promises to bring ultra-vivid color and exceptional sharpness. Ektar started as a color 35mm and 120 semi-professional film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1989, which used the common C-41 process. It was designed to offer ultra-fine grain. It was manufactured in 25, 100 (replaced the poor selling 125 in June 1991 [4]), and 1000 ISO formats. 400 speed film was available until 1997. Poor market segmentation was cited as a factor in Kodak's decision to discontinue Ektar in 1994. The film was replaced by the Royal Gold line. The 120 version of Ektar was discontinued in 1997. I am very proud of this work, it’s taken me a few visits to choose the right weather for these and hopefully, you will enjoy the results. As a resident of this small city I’m proud to show you Lincoln with a tint of modernism.

Kodak Ektar 100 Film Review: “World’s Finest Grain”

Uniquely beautiful results with amazingly true colours for a colour negative film, fine details & excellent skin tones

There’s also a comprehensive data sheet from Kodak right here. It includes storage advice, exposure guides for shooting under different light sources, and a few curve charts that I don’t think I’ll ever need to know what they mean. As a color-negative film it’s one of the closest contenders to the punchiness of old slide film. The benefit of Ektar over these being the natural circumvention of the inconvenient and costly processing that slide film requires. Take Ektar to your local lab and they’ll have your prints ready in no time, as it uses C-41 process chemicals (the standard stuff used in every lab these days). Kodak Ektar is a film that is a low ISO value of ISO 100. For this reason, it’s popular with many landscape photographers and in the 120 format you’re surely going to shoot it with a camera placed on a tripod. This is one of the few films that I’ve shot which gives me consistent results that I’ve pretty much expected. In a few situations though, it was unexpected–like when shooting it when it’s 10 years expired. Ilford’s Pan 400 and 100 do a similar job. They’re very easy to find for a very good price in Asia, yet not really available in the UK or the US, as far as I know. Oriental Seagull 100 and 400 are similar, also being produced by the people behind Ilford and being sold primarily in Asia for a good price too. Ektar” is a name Kodak has been reserving for its premium products since 1936 . Up until 1960, Ektar belonged to a series of the brand’s top-end lenses.

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