Kodak Elite Chrome 100 replacement

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Hi Andreas,
both surprising me and interesting.
Because I use PS 13 and Fuji Gera, too (and a local E6 lab).
And I've never had any problems with a cyan cast with Provia 100F.
But a light shift to cyan in the blues with Kodak Elitechrome 100 and E100G (of course dependant on the subject and light temperature).
I know some other photographers with the same experience.

And it's also documented by Rowland Mowrey, former Kodak engineer (he explained that on apug some years ago):
'Kodak emphazises warm tones, especially yellow in its color films. Yellow is quite saturated in Kodak films.
The yellow layer contains a small amount of cyan dye forming coupler. This is done to adjust color reproduction. Wherever there is a saturated yellow, there is a tiny bit of cyan, too'.

One reason of our different results could be the lenses. Lenses differ in their spectral transmission, and these differences are often very visible in direct comparison: Some lenses render colors very warm, emphazising yellow and red, some have a magenta cast, some are neutral and some tend towards blue / cyan or green.

To give Provia 100F more the look of Kodak Elitechrome (or E100G) just use a Skylight 1A or 1B filter (to get the warmer tone) or use the polarizer (as you seem to have a preference for deep blue skys).

Cheers, Jan

Jan, this isn't a matter of warmer or colder, skylight or not. It is the spectral response of the film and at a certain point blue is rendered cyan although (in my eyes) it was a clear blue.

To be honest I don't care any longer since I've abandoned slides nearly completely. The 5 or 10 rolls of Elitecrome 100 in my fridge will last some time.

P.S.: just pulled out a Kodak EB3 and an Agfaphoto CT Precisa (made in Japan), both developed at Fuji, and put them side by side on the lighttable. Immediate first impression is, the Agfaphoto / Fuji looks somehow greenish. The lighter parts of blue skys are greenish, the Kodak is blue. I just do not enjoy looking at the Fuji slides.