Ektachrome 64 / EPR

[mw_uio]

My understanding that this film Ektachrome 64 / EPN is exclusive for Kodak Japan made by Kodak USA.

Searching on the web I have found this.

It is available in Japan at japanexposures.
http://www.japanexposures.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=213

It is available in the USA at ecamerafilms.
http://www.ecamerafilms.com/product_p/8657124.htm

Available at Adorama in 100' bulk format,
http://www.adorama.com/KKEPR404.html?searchinfo=ektachrome+64


"Ektachrome 64 pro (EPR) is one of the best choices available to serious amateur and professional photographers because of its moderate contrast, accurate colors, and the best skin tone rendition of any slide film currently available. Ektachrome 64 has a color palette that is as close to neutral as possible; in other words, reds are red and blues are blue. The film has very fine grain and reasonable exposure latitude (typically 2/3 stop over to 1 stop under). Pros often use EPR when absolute color accuracy is required for demanding clients and magazine/coffee table book illustrations. Kodak Ektachrome 64 Professional has been the accepted industry standard for use in the studio or under controlled daylight conditions for more than a decade. The rich natural color and soft highlight contrast are perfect for food, fashion/glamour/nude, and catalog photography. EPR is designed for exposure with daylight or electronic flash. EPR can also be exposed using photolamps (3400 K) or tungsten (3200 K) illumination (with color balancing filters) and 64 Pro is also ideal for fine art images, photomechanical reproduction, and custom “R” or Ilfochrome (formerly CibaChrome) prints. Bokeh effects are rendered beautifully with this film."
Above quote from: http://www.epinions.com/review/Kodak_Ektachrome_64T_EPY_135_36__Film_8533093/content_59963051652

My question is there is that much demand for Ektachrome 64 in 35mm format, in Japan and in niche parts of the film world? Is this film the most color accurate film of "all slide films"? Have you used it for your work, printed a Ilfochrome from EPN?


Mark
Quito, Ecuador

 

[sepiareverb]

Never tried it. I used to use EPP years ago, but went to the E100 films when they came out. We used to say the P was for 'pop'.

 

[Trius]

Mark: I will see if I can get some in ROC, perhaps at the Kodak store.

 

[mw_uio]

Earl, 2 or 3 rolls would be great! thank you! Mark.

[as a side note Earl, I was successful [a long story], in pressing the Kodak Distributor here in Ecuador, and last week took delivery of 25 rolls of Tri-X!]

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This is an old-school film that was widely used by commercial photographers for product work in the pre-digital days because of its accurate color reproduction, even with difficult to render colors sometimes seen in clothing. It was discontinued for US sale because the people who used it all went digital; fine art and landscape photogs never liked it because it doesnt have the high color saturation of the E100 series films. It is kinda grainy by todays standards but not badly so, and is great for high contrast light.

 

[Trius]

I used to use it to copy artwork for artists portfolio shots. And for other applications, though I preferred Kodachrome generally for my personal work.

 

[Roger Hicks]

ER/EPR is soft, grainy, low-saturation and inclined to blue. Despite all this it was the standard pro film in the 1970s and even into the 80s: we all had work-arounds, and besides, we normally shot bigger formats than 35mm. By the early 90s a Kodak executive agreed with me that it was the worst slide film they still made, and added that it was kept alive only by those who were too hidebound to change. I'd never willingly go back to it.

Tashi delek,

R.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

ER/EPR is soft, grainy, low-saturation and inclined to blue. Despite all this it was the standard pro film in the 1970s and even into the 80s: we all had work-arounds, and besides, we normally shot bigger formats than 35mm. By the early 90s a Kodak executive agreed with me that it was the worst slide film they still made, and added that it was kept alive only by those who were too hidebound to change. I'd never willingly go back to it.

Tashi delek,

R.

By the early 90's they had much finer grain stuff out. You know one I miss was the Lumiere 100 series. They didn't make them long before replacing them with another short-lived 100 speed Ektachrome series, which I forget the name to, and that was replaced by the current E100 series. I loved the Lumiere films they had incredible fine grain and gorgeous color that has never returned in any of the later versions

 

[Trius]

Yes, it is soft and grainy, but in some situations that was OK. The blue shift was the only thing that really bothered me.

 

[amateriat]

Yes, EPR was the first of the "new" Pro E6 films Kodak rolled out (the big deal then was the fact sheet inside–remember those?–which had that particular emulsion run's actual speed printed in red; once in a great while I'd get a batch that was EI 50; half the time it would be EI 80).

My WTC photo series from 1981 (finally up in the Gallery...still don't know why i couldn't get them up there until now) was not only shot entirely on EPR, but was hand-processed by me via an E6 sink line I was in charge of at a media production house back then. The film actually wasn't bad for the time, but remember, it hadn't been that long since it replaced the E4-based Ektachrome X. The stuff we're using now is a light year or two ahead of that.


- Barrett

 

[Roger Hicks]

Yes, EPR was the first of the "new" Pro E6 films Kodak rolled out (the big deal then was the fact sheet inside–remember those?–which had that particular emulsion run's actual speed printed in red (once in a great while I'd get a batch that was EI 50; half the time it would be EI 80).
- Barrett

Dear Barrett,

They must have saved the 80 ASA stuff for the US market. By my recollection, around half the film we got in London in the mid-70s was ASA 50!

Cheers,

R.

 

[Trius]

Oh, man, I had totally forgotten about emulsion-specific EIs on the info "tissues"!

 

[amateriat]

Oh, man, I had totally forgotten about emulsion-specific EIs on the info "tissues"!

Ah, but I didn't...I was actually amazed at the attention paid to this. I didn't need my photographic neurosis fed this way at that time! 😛


- Barrett