Kodak Ektar 100 -- have you tried it?

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I guess I fell for the hype -- 'world's finest grain' -- and bought a few rolls of Kodak Ektar 100 color negative film. The seller says it used to be sold in different speeds, and marketed between consumer and pro. Now it's marketed as a pro film. Anyone here tried it? I have one roll sent to the lab..

Michael
 
I have tried it, but I forgot to scan any of the images! I'll do so soon and post to this thread as the other Ektar threads are already really long.
I love it! With my Summicron 40 I got nice even contrast, good highlight retention and not overly-warm colors.
 
I have tried it and it has very fine grain. Saturation and contrast are moderate as far as I can tell. HERE is a 6mb scan from a local photo shop (taken with a Canon 50mm f1.8 LTM at f5.6 or f8).
 
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I just bought a few rolls the other day...and plan to load it into my Hexar RF with 50/2 Planar, 35/1.2 Nokton and an 85/2 Jupiter.

I'm really interested to see the results from this new emulsion.

~ Hibbs
 
 
People please downsize your images before posting CJM your images are way too big.

I bought 5 rolls of 36 exp. about two weeks ago. I've shot only one roll so far, and that was in strong mid afternoon sunlight. It was literally a test roll. It took me less than 30 minutes to circle several blocks just shooting at different lighting situations. I'm still dialing in Vuescan, but yeah, I'm seeing some tight "grain." It's been a while since I've shot anything other than 400 ISO. Looking forward to seeing some images.

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RayPA said:
People please downsize your images before posting CJM your images are way too big.
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Yeah, it was a little large. I was just trying to show the fine grain of Ektar 100. I've changed it to a link so the thread is a little more manageable.
 
cjm said:
Yeah, it was a little large. I was just trying to show the fine grain of Ektar 100. I've changed it to a link so the thread is a little more manageable.
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thanks, Chris! it makes reading and seeing this stuff much easier. :)

In photoshop you can grab a crop of 100% full-size image, size it to 7-10" at 72 dpi and that works pretty good for seeing grain and artifacts.

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I have. Yes, it does have fine grain but I have to agree with Chris on the contrast and saturation.

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My old friend Subhash (srtiwari on RFF) gave me a roll when he visited India. I found its negatives excellent for scanning -- but for prints from the lab it's little different from other films.
 
Is there any consensus on what is the best all-around ISO to expose Ektar 100 at?

I've read on the Net some people have better (for them) experiences exposing at ISO 80, 64 or even 50.

In the absence of any experience, my inclination would be to expose it at 64 or 80 - this is because my first few rolls with it will be IMPORTANT vacation rolls (silly to not do testing beforehand, I know), but most C-41 films tolerate overexposure better than under- exposure.

Any thought/experiences regarding ISO?
 
sleepyhead said:
Is there any consensus on what is the best all-around ISO to expose Ektar 100 at?

I've read on the Net some people have better (for them) experiences exposing at ISO 80, 64 or even 50.

In the absence of any experience, my inclination would be to expose it at 64 or 80 - this is because my first few rolls with it will be IMPORTANT vacation rolls (silly to not do testing beforehand, I know), but most C-41 films tolerate overexposure better than under- exposure.

Any thought/experiences regarding ISO?
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I'd just shoot it at 100 - there is plenty of latitude.
 
sleepyhead said:
Is there any consensus on what is the best all-around ISO to expose Ektar 100 at?

I've read on the Net some people have better (for them) experiences exposing at ISO 80, 64 or even 50.

In the absence of any experience, my inclination would be to expose it at 64 or 80 - this is because my first few rolls with it will be IMPORTANT vacation rolls (silly to not do testing beforehand, I know), but most C-41 films tolerate overexposure better than under- exposure.

Any thought/experiences regarding ISO?
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I've been exposing it at iso 64 with good results. A little more detail in the shadows. Latitude is good enough that highlights still don't blow at all. An with this slight overexposure, the negs don't become too dense for scanning to be an issue.
 
Marlon and Chris, I tried half a roll at 50 EI and it did seem to create more shadow detail. It was still moderate saturation. The extra stop really didn't seem to make the negatives unmanageable. If I had been thinking I would have taken the same shot twice one at 50 and one at 100. Here is one I took at 50 EI and I think it is very harsh lighting, and the face shadows seem to be OK:

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