Flashback to late 2008. Digital has completely obliterated 35mm sales. Kodak, Fuji, and Ilford are about to shut down their film processing lines and go under. Digital SLR owners worldwide cheer in a unified rejoice as they drink the blood from the severed heads of film photographers in the jubilee that followed once they've finally won the great film vs digital wars that were fought verbally for years on many different Internet forums.
Given some of the stuff I've read over the past eight years on various Internet forums, the previous paragraph seems to be what most of the hardcore digital using population would have expected to happened to us Luddites by now. Instead, in late 2008, Kodak Eastman comes out and releases a new line of 35mm film: Kodak Ektar 100.
I finally got around to buying some Ektar 100 recently. From I can tell by the one roll I've shot so far, it is some really nice film to use. I thought I'd just go ahead and share my five favorite photos I took with my first roll of Kodak Ektar 100. Enjoy. All images taken with a Voigtlander Ultron 28mm f2.0 strapped to a Leica M6.
*Images not guaranteed to be amazing.
One roll of Kodak Ektar 100, and already I like the results more then any other color film I've shot in 35mm.
Additional Kodak Ektar 100 buzz.
Resources
Buy Kodak Ektar 100 at B&H. 35mm, 120, 4x5 & 8x10
How Not To Dress For Work
The Legacy Pro - Fuji Film Connection
Battle of the Century
The Secret to Loading 35mm Film for Development.
I feel like a tourist.
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 am
Stupendous! I love your color work!
April 29th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
i have five rolls of this stuff but when i'm at the point when i'm making the decision as to what to load i default to the portra. totally gonna try some.
love the voigt 28/2.0.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Ha! I have five rolls of Portra and am now finally deciding to load them. Course, I've shot maybe four rolls of color negative film in the past five years before this, so they're all quite new to me. I'm liking the results though. Definitely need to add more color to my M6's diet.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Hey, thanks for the link.
Ektar has changed my shooting. After a long nearly black and white only spell, I now carry a second camera loaded with Ektar.
February 24th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
I love ektar. As long as you don't mess up the exposure it is really wonderful.
February 25th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
I'll sometimes see a blue cast to my photos. Not sure if it happens when I underexposure, or just when I am lazy while doing the color correction during post processing.