Ektachrome is Back!

Pretty shocked actually :) Was my favorite slide film. Was thinking on going B/W reversal, but I suppose I could wait for EktaChrome. Dont really think it will come cheap though.

Regards.

Marcelo
 
BluYote said:
Yeah, Fuji's Velvia prices are getting crazy (12+ dollars a roll) hopefully some competition will help. I would pay $9.99 a roll for Ektachrome 36 exposure rolls.
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Even Agfa Precisa is $10.99 a roll now (over the counter), I doubt Kodak would be able to undercut that. But I'd be happy enough if they come in under Fuji's now ridiculous prices (about $15 over the counter). This would position it where it was when they discontinued it, a bit more than Precisa, and bit less than Velvia.
 
Michel154 said:
also not a big slide shooter but for sure will buy a few rolls to see , quite curious to see how it will look they must of have of tweaked-it for scanning just like the porters and Tmax
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IIRC E100G was already a tabular grained film, and it scanned beautifully. Even my old V700 made incredibly good scans from this film. My dedicated scanners will do even better.

Oh man Ektachrome plus my M4 and 35mm Biogon is such a great travel combination.
 
tunalegs said:
Even Agfa Precisa is $10.99 a roll now (over the counter), I doubt Kodak would be able to undercut that. But I'd be happy enough if they come in under Fuji's now ridiculous prices (about $15 over the counter). This would position it where it was when they discontinued it, a bit more than Precisa, and bit less than Velvia.
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My guess is around $10/roll.
 
SaveKodak said:
IIRC E100G was already a tabular grained film, and it scanned beautifully. Even my old V700 made incredibly good scans from this film. My dedicated scanners will do even better.

Oh man Ektachrome plus my M4 and 35mm Biogon is such a great travel combination.
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m4 and slide film i admire your skill it took me a few years to figure out the center weighted /big spot metering of a leica, specialy now i got used to Portra that likes to be over-exposed and is very forgiving it will be fun to work with slide film again get somme discipline back
 
I wonder if the primary motivation for this was demand or if they came up with a new manufacturing process which made it more economical for them to produce.

I would imagine those massive machines they had years ago cranking hundreds of feet per hour were no longer economically viable to run so perhaps something new was made?

Either way, after so many cuts of film its really heartening to see Kodak bringing some back. They have to be sitting on so many patents that are going no where.
 
I wouldn't have thought this possible. I'm amazed and delighted.

ISO 100 suits me just fine. If films are going to be limited, I would rather have access to those that offer the highest image quality. (Then again, a 400 ISO slide film that pushes well to 1000 would be a nice addition to the 100.)

I, too, hope they eventually offer it in 120.

- Murray
 
JChrome said:
I wonder if the primary motivation for this was demand or if they came up with a new manufacturing process which made it more economical for them to produce.

I would imagine those massive machines they had years ago cranking hundreds of feet per hour were no longer economically viable to run so perhaps something new was made?

Either way, after so many cuts of film its really heartening to see Kodak bringing some back. They have to be sitting on so many patents that are going no where.
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I think it's prompted by their Super 8 camera they have coming out. Now there is a film you can actually project. What's more, there is nothing quite like Super 8 reversal film.
 
Yes, very nice.
But what the world needs now is a high-speed colour slide film. For the seven of us still shooting only colour slide there is more than enough 50 and 100 ISO stock to go around.
If these guys really want to make hearts beat faster, they'll crank out something 400 or faster. Then, they'll get my attention, and more important, my business.
 
JChrome said:
I wonder if the primary motivation for this was demand or if they came up with a new manufacturing process which made it more economical for them to produce.
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Yeah, I bet they are going to set up a much smaller coating line, or make their existing line switchable between this emulsion and the existing films in batches (Ilford does this). The press releases seems to indicate that the product will be made by Kodak and not Kodak Alaris, so somewhere in Rochester, they are indeed tooling up for this comeback!
 
Now if they would bring back P3200 instead of telling us to push Tmax 400 :D (even though I know that P3200 was actually more like a 800-1000 film naturally)
 
rbsinto said:
Yes, very nice.
But what the world needs now is a high-speed colour slide film. For the seven of us still shooting only colour slide there is more than enough 50 and 100 ISO stock to go around.
If these guys really want to make hearts beat faster, they'll crank out something 400 or faster. Then, they'll get my attention, and more important, my business.
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And for the one of you that wants something faster, there will be seven others who want maximum image quality in a general-purpose film. Personally I'd love to see Agfachrome 1000 back, but that's an even smaller market.

Most people, if they want fast colour, will go for digital; and understandably so. In other words, it's not so much that the world needs it, as that a small fraction of slide shooters (already a tiny fraction of all photographers) want something faster.

But it's still great news! The guys who run Alaris might actually have kept Kodak afloat, unlike the travelling salesmen who ran it into the ground.

Cheers,

R.
 
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