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.

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

By doing this, I was able to make sure the shadows were properly exposed while being confident that Kodak Ektar 100 could handle the overexposed highlights in the sky. Cool! precisely I’m shooting my first roll of Ektar, and tuning my method to scan the negatives. So I’m eager to see if could get the most of the film. Ektar 100 is designed to be very suitable for digitizing using a film scanner. [6] Example images [ edit ]For cloudy conditions] If you are using a 50mm lens (with out lens filter), Focus on your subject, then try to set the shutter speed to 1/60 second and use f/8 lens aperture. Adjust the shutter speed and/or lens aperture depending on the photographic effect you want. .*@:-) A few months after Christmas in 2019, I ran out of film and needed a supply of rolls that would occupy me for a few more months. However, I wasn’t ready to buy twelve rolls at the prices that Cinestill demands. This is when I found Kodak Ektar 100. I was immediately drawn to the idea of a pro-level film at a reasonable price (it’s the only reason I bought it, in fact). And, the rest is history! The first time I shot Ektar 100 was for its exact intended purpose – landscape photography. Everything that I read told me that Ektar 100 was truly meant for capturing landscapes. So, I went hiking with a few of my friends. I began writing this article in my head a long time ago, but kept on trying some new experiment or other with Ektar 100, and time got away from me! With summer light about to hit the Northern Hemisphere, I thought this would be a good time to share my experiments and thoughts on pushing Kodak Ektar 100 film two extra stops — in other words, shooting it and developing it as if it were ISO 400. 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. 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.

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As Kodak say themselves on the Pro Image datasheet, this film features high colour saturation, accurate colour and pleasing skin-tone reproduction. Even after equalizing the scans across the RGB channels, colour shifts may persist, forcing an extra colour-correction step onto your workflow.

So Ektar is far contrasty, sharper and the grain and saturation are far superior to Portra. It’s a useful guide to use when deciding to shoot architecture. Lomography writer @garden_song shares her experience of using the Lomo LC-A 120 for the first time loaded with the new LomoChrome Color ’92 120 ISO 400 film. 5 Share Tweet And that’s why Ektar is not the best Kodak film for portraits. The vivid colours that are its strength and that make your landscapes and flowers pop will often make skin tones too red. Fixable in post-processing, of course. But not ideal straight out of the camera. Contrast and sharpness were both good too and offered nothing to complain about, but the overall results are still half a level below those from Portra or Ektar, I think. Ektar 100 shot and developed at ISO 400 with a LC-A 120. Decatur (left and center) and MacLean (right), Illinois. Early June, 2017.

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

Fujifilm X-Trans IV (X-Pro3, X100V, X-T4, X-S10 & X-E4) Film Simulation Recipe: Fujicolor NPS 160 PulledPersonal 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.

Kodak Ektar 100 (35mm and 120; Various Formats) Review: Kodak Ektar 100 (35mm and 120; Various Formats)

The first of those makes a lot of sense considering the markets this film was first sold in, while the second is interesting for only mentioning underexposure and the fact we had some shots earlier that seemed to have been affected by a little overexposure. 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.

Kodak Ektar is a film that is a low ISO value of ISO 100. For this reason, it’s popular with many landscape photographers and in the 120 format you’re surely going to shoot it with a camera placed on a tripod. This is one of the few films that I’ve shot which gives me consistent results that I’ve pretty much expected. In a few situations though, it was unexpected–like when shooting it when it’s 10 years expired. The only downsides are what have already been mentioned. We have some more red skin tones on the fourth image below, and I’ve included the last one to show what can happen when you start to lose the sun at the end of the day. Not enough shutter speed to get the film’s vaunted sharpness.