Kodak 6031330 Professional Ektar 100/36 Colour Negative Film

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While the consumer-grade Kodak colour negative films are hardy enough that they don’t need to be cold stored, the company does recommend on the datasheet that you keep your Ektachrome in the fridge until you come to shoot it. I see people talk about the colours you get from Ektachrome E100. About how they’re rich and bright. And also the contrast, sharpness, and fine grain brought about by Kodak’s T-grain emulsion technology. And for many lovers of digital cameras, this may also be one of your favorite Kodak film emulsions.

Kodak Ektar is an ISO 100 colour negative film that, as you might expect following that claim about its grain, sits firmly in the company’s Professional range. If there were flash output added to this scene, it would have looked far different. With that said though, you can still see how well it did with holding its tonality. 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 found that using the film in warm indoor lighting gave the film a really over-saturated look and considerable colour lean towards the green end of the spectrum. The negatives above can be summarized by saying that Kodak Ektar 100 is not the most versatile film.In doing that, the main problem I found after seeing the results was what it means to have the light just right when shooting. It’s not enough for it to just be a sunny day. I could have been more patient and waited for 36 flawlessly lit scenes across a whole week instead of just getting through the roll with the best of what I was given over two days.

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. When you have a film that demands you get the light exactly right before it gives you decent results, using it to shoot street photography isn’t the most logical thing to do.

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Kodak Ektar 100 is a pretty beautiful film. It’s best used in the old school way of doing photography: with a camera on a tripod, a special light meter used to judge the highlights and shadows, and then a single very care and calculated exposure being made. It delivers very saturated colors that I’m sure many digital photographers will really like–especially if you’re a Sony shooter.

I’ve been using Kodak Ektar 100 in 35mm format on-and-off for quite a while now, and I’ve gotten to know the film very well under a whole range of situations and environments. Over all this time, I’ve been keeping notes on my thoughts and I think it’s about time I gave my two cents. So, my thoughts and feelings on Kodak Ektar 100 35mm film, all bundled up into one complete review… My Complete Thoughts on Kodak Ektar 100 If you’re someone who likes the looks of photos with a lot of contrast, Ektar might be the perfect film for you. As far as color negative films go, it’s hard to find more contrast than Ektar. 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.The Ektar name is something of a Kodak legend. If you’re an etymology nerd like I can sometimes be, Ektar is an acronym for Eastman Kodak Tessar. If you don’t think there’s enough light to fully expose your ISO 100 film, Ektar is better to be left at home. Or pushed in development.

As a slide film, Ektachrome is designed to be developed using the E-6 process, which has evolved from the original E-1 process of 1946 via the E-2, E-3, E-4, and E-5 versions. For a colour negative film it is very similar to slide film quality, but with the ease of C41 development. Like transparency film, it has saturated, vivid colours. A perfect landscape film. Fine detail and rich colours.Wanting to learn more about this, I dedicated yet another roll of Ektar 100 to a portrait project I had in mind. They did not turn out well. Although that’s not necessarily fair. In a sense they turned out fine. The compositions are really nice. I shot what I intended to shoot. But my subjects’ skin was shown either super red, yellow, or orange depending on the reflections of the surrounding landscapes. The results left me torn. I’d been obsessed with Ektar. But, how am I supposed to capture memories of my family and friends if their skin always looks like they’ve just finished applying their fourth layer of clown makeup? Once again here we can see the brilliant blue tones in the water, with the deep greens in the vegetation, and those dusty earth tones in the foreground. Kodak Ektar 100’s incredible skin tones Especially if you’re used to shooting a “consumer-grade” film (like Kodak Ultramax 400 or Kodak Gold 200), the difference will be noticeable. No matter what type of film, lower speed = less grain, so it makes sense that this version of Ektar film was only released in ISO 100.