Kodak Ektar 100 -- have you tried it?

[sleepyhead]

Faintandfuzzy and charjohncarter - THANKS - this is exactly the kind of information I've been looking for.

I think I'll shoot at ASA64 in sunny Florida.

 

[charjohncarter]

Sleepyhead, I'm in Mexico next week and I will be using 64 too. I have a really neat Pentax SLR that is very compact. The only problem is: it is DX only so I'll be scratching and taping before I leave. You are going to like this film, it's long suit isn't skin tones, but very fine grain and saturated, but subtle tones. So if you are shooting bikinis take some Portra with you too.

 

[IK13]

I shot a roll and I have mixed feelings.
So far it won't make me ditch Reala as my everyday film of choice.

I won't post any examples and would like to shoot some more before voicing a more definite opinion. It might be me, Costco developing and scanning (my Costco used to give me great results...now I'm less pleased every time I use them), the camera I used or probably all of the above.

Grain is low.
Color and saturation ...well since here I'm at the mercy of the "auto everything" setting on the Noritsu machine at Costco, I can only speculate that saturation is a bit above average and color fidelity is generally good. Skin tones though had some greenish tint.
Exposure wise - I'd probably shoot it at ISO 100 if I'm going to use commercial scanning.

 

[charjohncarter]

IK13, greenish tint????, I think pink. If you use the online Costco service you can turn off the auto feature. I agree, their scans are not what I use. I've tried to 'help' them with this but no go. So for 35mm I develop, no scan, then digitalize at my home. After that I send online and turn the 'auto correction' off. The prints are what I want for 35mm. This was developed by Costco and digitalized by me. I sent it to Costco for prints and it is very close to my monitor, even though I don't bother with a calibrated monitor. That is just a little too anal.

I used this one because it did not have 'hot' colors.

 

[sleepyhead]

IK13, greenish tint????, I think pink. If you use the online Costco service you can turn off the auto feature. I agree, their scans are not what I use. I've tried to 'help' them with this but no go. So for 35mm I develop, no scan, then digitalize at my home. After that I send online and turn the 'auto correction' off. The prints are what I want for 35mm. This was developed by Costco and digitalized by me. I sent it to Costco for prints and it is very close to my monitor, even though I don't bother with a calibrated monitor. That is just a little too anal.

I used this one because it did not have 'hot' colors.

Nice details in the highlight/brights on this shot - I think I'm gonna like this fim.

I'll be shooting exclusively with my Wideluxs on this Florida trip - one camera with Ektar 100 @64, and one camera with Fuji Superia 1600 @1250.

'Will try to post some images once I return and all the scanning/post-processing is done!

 

[charjohncarter]

Yaron, be sure to post, I'd like to see some more images. I'm going to shoot a roll at 64 in Mexico starting Wednesday.

 

[IK13]

IK13, greenish tint????, I think pink. If you use the online Costco service you can turn off the auto feature. I agree, their scans are not what I use. I've tried to 'help' them with this but no go. So for 35mm I develop, no scan, then digitalize at my home. After that I send online and turn the 'auto correction' off. The prints are what I want for 35mm. This was developed by Costco and digitalized by me. I sent it to Costco for prints and it is very close to my monitor, even though I don't bother with a calibrated monitor. That is just a little too anal.

You can't turn off anything when you have "develop and CD". Unless you're really close with the operator that is. Though my experience with two stores tells me that they are absolutely clueless when it comes to something even just a little bit outside of the default machine presets. I know I've tried. Some of them were very nice people, but just plain lacked the knowledge and I can't really blame them for that.

If you're submitting already digitized picture online for printing, then you do have the "don't mess with my picture" checkbox and I also strongly recommend using it if you've done your part. I do have a calibrated monitor and I use the Noritsu machine profiles, published for my store. Dry Creek Photo makes and publishes these profiles and they also have a very detailed document, describing how to prepare your pictures before submitting them to get the best results.

Color and color saturation are highly adjustable/changeable and I'm at the mercy of the whatever the machine presets are to give me an output of whatever it thinks is right. With a negative I don't even have the light table reference.

Anyways - that's why I said that I'll use some more rolls before I form an opinion. I'll probably sent them to the lab Ken Rockwell's bragged about down in San Diego...

 

[charjohncarter]

Ik13, yes, I was talking about the online sending of files. Your are right if you let them do the CD, you don't know what you will get. If the lab in SD is DigitalChrome or something like that it is good. The only problem is the charge $15.00 to mail back. So you have to send a bushel of rolls to make it pay.

 

[capitalK]

I liked the colours I got out of my first roll, though there's nothing worth posting here. Not sure how much more of it I will shoot, I'm mostly doing the B&W thing... especially through winter.

 

[sleepyhead]

Yaron, be sure to post, I'd like to see some more images. I'm going to shoot a roll at 64 in Mexico starting Wednesday.

Cool, would be nice to see some more of your pictures at some point.

 

[Todd.Hanz]

I didn't even know Kodak made a new color film, picked a couple rolls up the other day to clean the silver out of my MP 😉. I like it for the speed (50-100), seems like good color to me.

Todd

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

Two 'firsts' - here!.....first roll of Ektar, and first roll with my 'new' Hexanon 40mm f1.8 ( evil SLR! 😱 ) both are SHARP!, I like this film, though I think it may be a little too warm and saturated in some situations.
Dave.

 

[capitalK]

I shot some last weekend in my new (to me) Olympus Stylus Epic. It was a great combo. I could colour-correct these pure scans but I kind of like the cast.

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

Three more from the same roll.....of no pictorial merit!-just the proverbial 'test roll', shutter set @ 1/125 and AE left to do it's thing!
Dave.

 

[ray*j*gun]

I shot a test roll over Christmas.......no grain at all...... nice color saturation and accurate color's ...... I think its excellent film. Its not Kodachrome however.

Ray

 

[Erik L]

anyone pushed this yet?

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

anyone pushed this yet?

Why would you want to? - kinda defeats the object....does'nt it?.
Dave.

 

[charjohncarter]

Yaron, here are a few from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It is a colorful place, but this film really pops. Yaron, as I think I said, I shot these are 64.

 

[sleepyhead]

John, thanks for posting - I like the first two shots best - lovely colour.

I'm still in Florida shooting away at ASA 64 with my Widelux - will take me a few weeks probably before I scan and post the results.

 

[Leighgion]

I've got a roll of Ektar loaded into my Canonet QL17. Still shooting it, as our weather has been less than ideal for an 100 speed film many days, and the sunny days are cold enough to dissuade me from going out too much.