Vobluda
Well-known
Rebranded Elitechrome 100 sells here for 1,9 EUR / 2,7 USD roll.
My father and my brother with Hexar AF at f2 I guess.
My father and my brother with Hexar AF at f2 I guess.
charjohncarter
Veteran
EliteChrome is my vacation film, my junk film, my family weekend film, and my just plain goof off film. It has a good price and I process a WalMart. I love it. Here are a few:
Like I said vacations, these are all Mexico.
Like I said vacations, these are all Mexico.
efix
RF user by conviction
I always thought I'd want to use a Fujichrome emulsion for their colour reproduction. But somehow the cheap and cheerful Elite Chrome has some hard to describe magic going on -- for me at least -- that makes it much more interesting.
Maybe it's only the fact that it lends itself better at scanning and processing. But even looking at the slides gives me more satisfaction that looking at Provia or Velvia -- maybe because those are more than two times more expensive ...?
Maybe it's only the fact that it lends itself better at scanning and processing. But even looking at the slides gives me more satisfaction that looking at Provia or Velvia -- maybe because those are more than two times more expensive ...?
Jani_from_Finland
Well-known
So if the Elite Chrome 100 is E100G, is the Elite chrome 100 Extra Colour the E100VS ?
Anyone knowing any difference in xpro?
dallard
Well-known
Yes, I believe so.
Still waiting to see if anyone knows the difference between elite chrome and ektachrome.
ooze
Established
Another couple of Elite Chromes
Biancacamicia, Val d'Orcia, Toscana by Vicky Lamburn, on Flickr
Amberley Mount from Bury Hill, South Downs by Vicky Lamburn, on Flickr
Both taken with an OM2n
Vicky
Vicky,
I love the tonal palette of your pictures, and also the level of detail. Would you mind sharing your scanner and scanner setting details? I do have a dedicated Nikon slide scanner but scans don't look anywhere near what you've been posting.
Cheers
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Lilserenity
Well-known
Thanks for the kind remarks. Scanner wise these were both on a Nikon Coolscan LS8000 I purchased about a month ago, scanned at 4000dpi in VueScan, standard white balance, fine scan mode, light ICE, and the film set to Kodak Ektachrome (not that makes really a jot of difference)
The rest is done in Lightroom 2.7 which I get on much better with for general photo editing than I did Photoshop CS3 (which I still use for graphic creation and the CMYK end of the workflow), generally I sharpen to the point that it looks sharp to my eyes on screen, and then reduce it bit so as to not have too grainy a prints or indeed on screen results, my weakness is to sometimes oversharpen
I used to use an 81B filter all the time but now I warm up the pictures a little where necessary in post processing, that way I have a 'neutral' slide to work with to begin with.
The rest is down to my OM2n's amazing meter and a bit of due diligence myself of knowing how to get the most out of Elite Chrome's latitude. (I tend to over-expose by about 1 stop in the evenings to pull out shadow detail in post.)
Vicky
Rob-F
Likes Leicas
Say, the color in these shots is wonderful! And as far as I can tell, on my iMac screen, the subjective impression of sharpness seems as good as you could want. Looks like Velvia may have met its match!
Denton
Established
efix
RF user by conviction
Some samples of EBX (Elite Chrome Extra Color):
Lovely in the sun ...
Extra Colo(u)r! by efixphoto, on Flickr
Colourful flowers by efixphoto, on Flickr
Hay bales and Innerberg by efixphoto, on Flickr
Corn by efixphoto, on Flickr
Sonnenuntergang auf dem Innerberg by efixphoto, on Flickr
... but useless in the shade:
Friedhof Niederweiler by efixphoto, on Flickr
Give me EB3 any time, and I'll be perfectly happy!
Lovely in the sun ...
Extra Colo(u)r! by efixphoto, on Flickr
Colourful flowers by efixphoto, on Flickr
Hay bales and Innerberg by efixphoto, on Flickr
Corn by efixphoto, on Flickr
Sonnenuntergang auf dem Innerberg by efixphoto, on Flickr
... but useless in the shade:
Friedhof Niederweiler by efixphoto, on Flickr
Give me EB3 any time, and I'll be perfectly happy!
Prest_400
Multiformat
That looks fantastic!
My enthusiasm for shooting seems to be back aswell, one of these days I'll go and buy some Elitechrome. Haven't shot slide for a year.
My enthusiasm for shooting seems to be back aswell, one of these days I'll go and buy some Elitechrome. Haven't shot slide for a year.