Kodak 6031330 Professional Ektar 100/36 Colour Negative Film

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That all sounds like things you can get with various colour negative films too, though. For me, with my limited experience of shooting it, what sets slide film apart is what I think comes from the sum of all the parts mentioned above. Now this session was done with the Mamiya RB67 Pro s and the film is expired 10 years. A flash is in a modifier camera right. Considering this, the film has held its own very well. Don’t let it worry you too much though. Keep it simple and if the results are less than ideal, learn and adjust for next time. And for many lovers of digital cameras, this may also be one of your favorite Kodak film emulsions. Kodak Ektar 35mm film is a fantastic professional film for nature, wildlife and fashion photography thanks to its vivid colours and optimised sharpness.

The people behind those have done what they can with the resources available to them. Producing film is a massive operation and it’s nigh on impossible for an individual or small business to make a genuine brand new one from scratch. It needs someone like Kodak to do it. Or Ilford with their Ortho Plus. Or Fuji with their Acros II (kinda made by Ilford). Ektar is wonderful for scenes with lots of light that need to produce detailed, well-saturated scans and prints. I’ve had great results taking photos of snow with this film. You can certainly increase the contrast when editing any type of film, but there is something unique-looking about the contrast that naturally occurs in photos taken on Kodak Ektar. They are sharp and punchy. While Ektar is often not recommended for portraiture as it could make faces of all skin tones appear slightly reddish, I found that this problem is usually corrected by adding an extra stop of even light. A bit more fixing could be done in post-processing using tools like Adobe Photoshop as well. But in the Ektachrome images I personally think are my best, it’s the depth that I’m most impressed by. The layers and separation between elements. Everything I’ve shot before on negative film seems a little flatter and more two-dimensional in comparison.

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You can (and should) shoot whatever type of photos you like, but if you’re interested in landscape photography, Kodak Ektar might be a particularly good option for you. The first thing to say about Ektar 100 as this review gets wrapped up is that it’s another film I’ve shot and found myself really liking. It’s a film I’ll certainly be shooting again. This vibrant, crisp and ultra-vivid 35mm colour negative film offers unsurpassed sharpness and fine grain. Rich tones make any scene come to life - from landscapes or travel to street photography and portraiture. With its high saturation and ultra-fine grain, Ektar 100 is perfect for capturing that elusive creative moment in stunning detail. Features: Not all street photography has to be in monochrome. Indeed, if you’re in a place with lots of colour, it can be a shame not to take advantage of that. And as long as you have enough light for its ISO 100 rating, the sharpness, contrast, and low grain make Ektar a fine film to do so.

Another key characteristic of Kodak Ektar is the extremely saturated colors. Once again, it’s hard to find another C41 color film with more saturation than Ektar. There’s a lot to love about Kodak Ektar. After shooting many rolls over the years, here are the characteristics we’ve come to enjoy and expect from this film. Even then, Kodak wanted its customers to know that Ektar isn’t a lens design (like the Sonnar ) but rather “ a performance index, a seal of quality, a sterling mark ” — source . And so, when it became again attached to a line of films in 1989, the nomenclature made sense. 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. Finally, there’s a table outlining the technology used in the production of Ektar 100 and the benefits it brings to us, the people who shoot it. I’m far more concerned with the latter, but here’s a selection of the former:An easy way to get excellent results with Ektar is to photograph scenes that aren’t busy, with minimal textures/fine contrast, perhaps overexposed by one stop. When not to shoot Kodak Ektar. I think my best results came when the sun was shining fully and pretty much shining fully from behind me. Any cloud cover affected my shots, and too much of a sideways angle of the light seemed to also. So that’s my non-expert advice for you when shooting yours. The discontinuations began in 2009 – incidentally the same year as Kodachrome went – with Ektachrome 64T and Ektachrome 100 Plus being the first to go. This trend continued until the entire range was gone in 2013. Kodak Ektar 100 was released as a completely new film in around 2007, designed to cater for photographers looking for higher contrast, ultra fine grain, and vivid punchy colour saturation – infact, the sort of qualities more often associated with colour reversal (slide) film, because, unbeknown to everyone at the time, Kodak was intending to ultimately kill their entire range of colour slide film (….fast forward to 2018, and Kodak re-introduced slide film with E100, but that’s another chapter of the story!) Kodak Ektar is a film very much suited to landscape or travel photography or whenever fine grain and heavier colour saturation is demanded. It’s not known for lending itself so much to portraiture and we would probably agree with this. Saying that, we would say skin tones on Ektar are still miles ahead of skin tones from most digital sensors! Kodak claim Ektar offers the finest, smoothest grain of any color negative film available today. Ideal for scanning, and offering extraordinary enlargement capability from a 35mm negative. A perfect choice for professional photographers, advanced amateurs and enthusiasts. All of the points above illustrate exactly why Kodak Ektar 100 is a great choice for landscape photography.

Under bright natural sunlight, Kodak Ektar 100 displays a well-balanced palette of deep, rich colours. From the full-on greens of grass and trees, to the light and dusty earth tones, to the delicate fresh sky blues – it’s truly a perfect film for a bright, sunny day. The current E-6 process was first released in 1977 and then modified in the mid-1990s to remove the formaldehyde from the stabiliser. I don’t know much about developing film but that sounds like a good move to me.Ektar, in my experience, has been quite versatile. Due to it’s low ISO, people generally wait to shoot it on the brightest days when the sun is shining in it’s strength. While Ektar certainly performs beautifully in these conditions, it holds up very well as the light begins to go down. You can still achieve those deep rich scenes for the more moody side of photography. Don’t feel that you have to be out on the beach or in the middle of a supernova for this film to really work for you. As mentioned above, the grain is one of the biggest selling points of Kodak Ektar 100. And they aren’t lying about how fine it is.