Kodak 6031330 Professional Ektar 100/36 Colour Negative Film

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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. All that is to say this film gives you a slightly different feel to the consumer-grade colour Kodak films I’ve shot before, with less of that trademark warm Kodak glow. The colours are more neutral than that, being a little more lifelike despite their vividness. 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. This session was done in 35mm and shot with a Canon 24-105mm f4 L IS, Canon 35mm f1.4 L USM, and a Canon 1V with a flash firing. Some of the tonality looks a bit like Kodak Portra but then you look closer and the skin tones and you realize that it’s not.

Kodak Ektar 100 Film Review — Josh Harmon Images Kodak Ektar 100 Film Review — Josh Harmon Images

Grain: 10 out of 10! It’s almost like it isn’t there, which in a sense makes it’s grain flawless. it works well on this film for sure.

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I don’t think it was straight to the Pro Image 100 name though, as a little further digging reveals a similar-looking film called Kodak ProFoto 100. While exact details are proving beyond my Googling skills, it looks like this was the precursor to Pro Image 100. Fuji X Weekly reader Thomas Schwab helped me immensely with this recipe. He’s had a hand in several recipes, and even created one from scratch that’s quite popular: Urban Vintage Chrome. Thomas captured a bunch of pictures with actual Ektar film, and made several similar exposures with his X-Trans IV cameras. He showed me examples of both, applying my original Ektar recipe to the pictures captured with his Fujifilm cameras. Then we began to create a new Kodak Ektar 100 film simulation recipe based on his Ektar pictures, hoping to achieve something closer to the film than the original recipe. Kodak Ektar 100 has limited exposure latitude as it is a 100-speed film. 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. This Kodak Ektar 100 film simulation recipe is intended for and only compatible with (as of this writing) the Fujifilm X100V, X-Pro3 and X-T4. It uses Clarity, which slows down the camera considerably. I just allow the pause to slow myself down. Another option, which is what Fujifilm recommends, is to add Clarity later by reprocessing the RAW file in-camera or with X RAW Studio.

Kodak Ektar 100 Film Review - Parallax Photographic Coop Kodak Ektar 100 Film Review - Parallax Photographic Coop

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: One testament I’ve seen to that is comparisons made between Ektar and slide film. Having only shot one roll of slide – the new Ektachrome 100 – at the time of writing, I don’t really have the experience to repeat those claims. But I’d say them getting made elsewhere is worth noting.When looking at the orange tones, the image shot with Kodak Gold 200 has a more subtle and flat orange tone, while the oranges in the Ektar 100 image are brighter and more vibrant. The only further thing to note here for the image quality and qualities is that the six shots below were taken in the Yashica Electro 35 GSN rangefinder. I wonder if the additional clarity in these pictures is from that two-stop difference with the LC-A's wonderful/terrible combination shutter and aperture, a slightly faster shutter speed and slightly smaller aperture. As far as Fujicolor 160NS, I think Pro Neg. Hi is a much closer starting point than Classic Chrome. Obviously this recipe is much too warm, unless one was using a warming filter or had a radioactive-coated lens. And too much contrast, too. Again, there are so many variables, and it’s difficult to nail down exactly what one film “looks like”. That’s obviously a pretty big challenge, but I’m always trying to get the general feeling “right” if I can. PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others.

Kodak Ektar 100 35mm Film Review - My Favourite Lens Kodak Ektar 100 35mm Film Review - My Favourite Lens

So much depends on the camera, plus how it is shot, developed and scanned or printed. One film can vary wildly. Everything I do and what I learn along the way gets shared on here, to inform and inspire you to get out and shoot as much - and as well - as you can too. Ektar 100 shot and developed at ISO 400 with a LC-A+. Whidbey Island, WA. Late June, 2017, full sunshine. Personal Score: 5 out of 10. I like Ektar a lot, but I can’t say I love it. It is a film that I have to have a specific need or want to shoot. On some scans, you may also notice the highlights drifting towards the yellows . Though many Kodak films often show warmer colours overall, Ektar could make your images appear unnatural in those areas, prompting more colour correction.This film also seems to have a resounding sharpness about it. It is smooth and crips on edges and textures feel almost life like. It’s pure and solid, providing an image that rivals most DSLRs on the market. I would even dare to say it pulls details that try to take on my 50 megapixel EOS 5DS. It’s not quite that level of sharpness and resolution, but it’s not too far off. I can comfortable scan this film at 3600 and 6400 in most cases and it still feels sharp and beautiful.

Kodak Professional Ektar 100 Color Negative Film 35mm - Moment Kodak Professional Ektar 100 Color Negative Film 35mm - Moment

From the chart, assuming that the usable film densities range from -1.75 to 1 lux-sec, the dynamic range of Kodak Ektar film is around 9 stops . This is calculated using this guide . Exactly where the ProFoto and Pro Image stories overlap is something I can’t tell you, but I don’t suppose it’s too important either.

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