Kodak 6031330 Professional Ektar 100/36 Colour Negative Film

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Recommended uses of Ektar 100, in Kodak’s words and not mine, are nature, travel, outdoor, fashion, and product photography.

This makes it a wonderful holiday film, ensuring you come back with photos that burst with medium-format life. What you may notice though is that cherry reds and magenta start to really get boosted, as the sensitivity starts to increase again leading towards the blue part of the spectrum. Kodak Ektar is a film very much suited to landscape or travel photography or whenever fine grain and heavier colour saturation is demanded. You may need something that can read high-density negatives and pass that data to you in 16-bit per channel — I use PrimeFilm XAs — though I’ve gotten great results with Ektar being scanned on flatbed scanners as well.I have a few projects in my mind for this year but having read a lot of negative experience shared in various forums I am dreading the airports . It's often said to be the closest thing to shooting slide film in terms of C41 films, perhaps dues to its bold colours, high contrast, and low grain. All that said, i have had some good results with it, even portraits on occasion - though i definitely would not choose this for portraits deliberately. Rich, vibrant, and strong saturated colors, that are great for landscape photography or scenes that are brightly lit with sunlight. This fine grain color negative film has high contrast and strong saturation which resembles the look of slide film but with better exposure latitude.

A little bit of underexposure can bring out some vibrant colors, with minimal addition to graininess during scanning. Fortunately the photography business has survived under the Kodak Alaris name - based in Hertfordshire, England - and they have delighted the analogue industry by pledging continued support for film production and the promise of bringing back old favourite emulsions. If you take a closer look at the sky portion of the image, you’ll see what the courser grain looks like.

A lot of experience and mistakes and corrections to really know how to get the most out of an emulsion. But for most of my 35mm shots, I tend to keep the dust as I feel it adds to the story: makes a portrait have more grit, or makes negative space more busy. Even though this image was shot in bright daylight, it was still a high dynamic range photo given the positioning of the sun backlighting Mount Rainier. This is a look that is very hard to replicate, and besides shooting still-available E6 slides, I find that Ektar can sometimes give me results that are close enough. Original Ektar film (1989 to 1997) started as a colour 35mm and 120 “semi-professional film”, designed to offer ultra-fine grain.

I found that the film’s tendency to accent those elements often takes the attention away from the intended accent point. With ISO 100 speed, high saturation and ultra-vivid color, this film offers the finest, smoothest grain of any color negative film available today. Hi Brendan, Portra 400 seems to work fine with 2-3 stops overexposure, and it gives me some margin not to underexpose.As a film in the Kodak Professional range, it’s not going to be a rarity in most of the world, like an Oriental Seagull 100 is for example. The one draw back that I have experienced with Ektar is the teal hue that you get in the sky in certain light. Kodak Ektar 100 has one of the best dynamic ranges and consistently produces incredibly striking scenes.

But my subjects’ skin was shown either super red, yellow, or orange depending on the reflections of the surrounding landscapes. com/sweet-city-bruges/, there is a mix between Portra and digital files, but I do like the portra shots here very much.As a heads up, this article is geared towards the beginner, but if you’re a seasoned film pro I think you’ll find some useful information in here too. With that said, the exposure latitude is not the best and if you’re shooting portraits, it’s best to keep the exposure as even as possible. Ektar will capture trickier scenes such as those with both bright sunlight and deep shadow without washing out the detail. Kodak Ektar is a professional color negative film introduced in 2008, designed for nature, outdoors, fashion, and product photography. From greens, to yellows to warm earthy colours, the film generally adds saturation and can shift hues in a pleasing way, while giving good colour separation.