Kodak 6031330 Professional Ektar 100/36 Colour Negative Film

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It looks great at 400, 200, 100, 50 etc - I've been 5 stops over by mistake and the scans look fine.

It’s only available as an 100 ISO film (keeps that pesky market unsegmented), but it comes in multiple formats – 35mm, 120 medium format, and in 4×5 and 8×10 sheets.

This makes Ektar a film that does just a bit more than it’s cheaper brother, but looks like it’s trying to be it’s Slide film brother. But my subjects’ skin was shown either super red, yellow, or orange depending on the reflections of the surrounding landscapes. Hi Brendan, Portra 400 seems to work fine with 2-3 stops overexposure, and it gives me some margin not to underexpose.

Personally, I think it adds to the picture, especially from a storytelling aspect, depending on how I want a viewer to feel. For me it made sense as I don't have a lot of experience with different colour films, and I wanted to see the difference when used in similar conditions. Finally, there’s a table outlining the technology used in the production of Ektar 100 and the benefits it brings to us, the people who shoot it. I have to say that I'm leaning toward Portra 400 as my primary color film, with odds and ends of different expired emulsions to just experiment and play with. I set my incident meter to 400 and stick it in the shadow to get a quick reading and then shoot from there.But expose it carefully, give it some scenery under great light, postcards will fly out of the back of your camera if the composition is right. This will give you much more flexibility to use faster shutter speeds or narrower apertures to limit the amount of light that enters the camera. It performs best when shot at the box speed of ISO 100 and does perform slightly better overexposed than underexposed. It’s also, in Kodak’s words again, ideal for scanning and has extraordinary enlargement capability from a 35mm negative. For me the main differences were a slight sharpness advantage to Ektar, and much better tolerance to over-exposure from the Portra.

So here are a few comparisons, I tried to match the used lens, time of day that the photos were taken, and viewpoint with respect to the sun. The biggest issue I’ve seen with Ektar is the accuracy of the colors, but it’s not enough to be a significant issue in most cases. But, how am I supposed to capture memories of my family and friends if their skin always looks like they’ve just finished applying their fourth layer of clown makeup? The vivid colours that are its strength and that make your landscapes and flowers pop will often make skin tones too red.After shooting 13 rolls of Kodak Portra 400 I thought it was time to give Ektar a try, as was suggested by some people who read my previous posts. Kodak Ektar 100 was released as a completely new film in around 2007, designed to cater for photographers looking for higher contrast, ultra fine grain, and vivid punchy colour saturation – infact, the sort of qualities more often associated with colour reversal (slide) film, because, unbeknown to everyone at the time, Kodak was intending to ultimately kill their entire range of colour slide film (…. It's pointless to meter Portra 400 or almost any other neg film at anything other than box speed UNLESS you are pushing or pulling it in development. The downside is that if you underexpose the image, the colors can turn muddy and if you overexpose the image, the colors give off a more pastel and washed out vibe. However, it would be great to have a little more headroom than the 4K standard resolution … I think 6K or 7K would be perfect, but it is what it is.