Kodak 6031330 Professional Ektar 100/36 Colour Negative Film

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But if you do want those colours, sharpness, and world’s finest grain for everything else, and do your thing somewhere with ISO 100 friendly light levels, Ektar is more than worth a shot. It performs best when shot at the box speed of ISO 100 and does perform slightly better overexposed than underexposed. The images that are underexposed tend to render muddy colors and overexposed images tend to look slightly washed out.

Kodak Ektar 100 - Film Profile - Casual Photophile Kodak Ektar 100 - Film Profile - Casual Photophile

One of these films is more popular than the other, as Portra is known as the workhouse of the brand and capable of anything. It’s so robust it will capture in most genres and Kodak has a range of ISO’s to help you out ( 160, 400 and 800) and a reputation for being able to push this a number of stops.For this recipe, literally a film camera loaded with Ektar and a Fujifilm X camera were placed side-by-side and captured the same subject at the same moment. Myself and Thomas Schwab worked really hard on this one, trying absolutely everything in our quest to get it as close to “right” as possible. It’s amazing how close we came! But, we also recognized that it’s not perfect. It’s not vibrant enough as +6 Color is really necessary, but isn’t an option, unfortunately. I would love to get closer to the film, but I just don’t think it’s possible–this is as accurate as one can get on Fujifilm X JPEGs.

The Beauty of Ektar Pushed + 2 Stops · Lomography The Beauty of Ektar Pushed + 2 Stops · Lomography

Through our years of testing Kodak Ektar it has been used with the Canon EOS 1V, Canon 35mm f1.4 L USM, Canon 24-105mm f4 L IS, various flashes, and the Mamiya RB67 Pro S coupled with the 90mm f3.8 lens. Ease of Use Hopefully, you enjoyed reading this article, if you haven’t tried Ektar, buy some now and try it. Please consider setting yourself a constraint like shooting different focal lengths, you never know what you might achieve and learn. I've shot above in 120 throughout, but of course both Portra and Ektar are also available in 35mm. As we’ll get into later, the image quality isn’t quite as good – in my opinion at least – as an Ektar or a Portra either, which could make you wonder why Kodak even put it into their Professional range. Let’s see if, in my humble and subjective opinion, it lives up to that billing in the next section. The bottom line for me is you get all that image quality in a colour negative film that can be developed anywhere using the common C-41 process and for not too bad a price.

If you look at Kodak’s documentation it’s quite interesting that Ektar is so saturated, then next is 800 ISO Portra, but Portra 160 is the worse! 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.

Kodak EKTAR 100 | Ag Photographic+Photolab Kodak EKTAR 100 | Ag Photographic+Photolab

While Ektar 100 won’t make images as brilliant as slide film, and while it’s certainly less versatile than its faster brother Portra, in the right shooting situations it can create images that are simply stunning. With exceptional saturation, vivid color, and virtually non-existent grain, Ektar is one of the richest and most consistently beautiful color films available. But let’s take a real close look at Ektar 100, and see what Kodak’s cooking in color film.As a standard colour negative film, Pro Image 100 is developed using the standard C-41 process. This means you’ll have absolutely no trouble finding a lab to do it for you if, like me, you don’t do it yourself. The first thing that needs to be said as we wrap up this Pro Image 100 review is a big thank you to Kodak for bringing it to the European and North American markets so that more people can more easily get their hands on some and try it out for themselves.

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

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: The important thing to know about Print Grain Index is that if it’s 25 or below, there’s no grain to see — the image would appear perfectly smooth. Whereas a 90 will look grainy to most people.Comparing it very slightly unfavourably to some of the best films out there doesn’t make this one bad though, and the only reason I’m making that comparison is Kodak class this as a professional film. There are some to follow after the next section that were taken in a Canon Sure Shot AF-7 point ‘n’ shoot, and they do look markedly different. Still good in my opinion, but different for sure.