The fine grain of the E6 slide film is far superior to the detail captures than most colour negative films. Kodak Ektar 100 grain is finer than Kodak Portra and Fuji Pro 400H. Cinestill 50D (Kodak Vision3 50D) is also very fine grain but with it’s own colours. Personally I find 35mm Kodka Portra 400 often too grainy for my taste and I sometimes opt for the cheap Fujicolor C200 film that has less apparent grain. Film expsoure latitude The Super-8 version was exhibited at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, and was named Ektachrome 100D 7294. This step is carried out to completion. The developer contains CD-3 developing agent, and acts upon the chemically exposed silver halide that was not developed in the first developer to form a positive silver image. The metallic negative silver image formed in the first developer has no part in the reaction of this step. As the color development progresses, a metallic positive silver image is formed and the color developing agent is oxidized. Oxidized color developer molecules react with the color couplers and color dyes are formed in each of the three layers of the film. [6] Each layer of the film contains different color couplers, which react with the same oxidized developer molecules but form different color dyes. Variation in color developer pH causes color shifts on the green-magenta axis with Kodak E100G & E100GX and Fujichrome films and on the yellow-blue axis with older Ektachrome films. [12]

I suppose that’s fitting – by all rights, Ektachrome shouldn’t even be here. Up until a few months ago it was all but certain that we’d be saying goodbye to E-6 slide film. Kodachrome fell in 2010. Fujifilm, though producing some of the best film in the game, keeps cutting film from their catalog like a bitter ex deleting every photo of you off of their phone. And even though film is experiencing a resurgence, it never looked like the difficult, strange pleasures of slide film would ever be attractive to new shooters, not to mention film manufacturers. Being a 50 ISO film, you already know that the grain is going to be extremely fine, which makes the amount of detail you can squeeze out of Velvia 50 second to none. Despite its marketing as a professional film, Ektachrome is not the most capable, most accurate slide film on offer.” Be aware though that nothing good in life comes easy, and getting good results from this film requires a little more care and exactness than the Golds and Ultramaxes of the world ask of you.What are the advantages of this troublesome film? Ektachrome’s technical data sheet notes a remarkable sharpness and a neutral, but rich color palette, which should result in a truer-to-life image compared with most C41 film. While this is objectively true, it only scratches the surface of what this film really is. Let’s dig a little deeper. While the consumer-grade Kodak colour negative films are hardy enough that they don’t need to be cold stored, the company does recommend on the datasheet that you keep your Ektachrome in the fridge until you come to shoot it. Figure 2: Underexposed Ektachrome E100 scans may benefit from histogram equalization to remove non-information from your image and restore the film’s natural clarity and colour rendition.

These days it can be difficult to find labs that process slide film, let alone labs that process it in-house. Here at The Darkroom, it’s one of our specialties! We have been dip & dunk processing E-6 slide film in-house for over 25 years. Yes, we have had a number of new films in the last few years, and I feel the same way about all of those too. That it’s better we have them than not. But the fact is some of them are repurposed film that was already made for another reason or a rebadging of another film you can buy anyway. That all sounds like things you can get with various colour negative films too, though. For me, with my limited experience of shooting it, what sets slide film apart is what I think comes from the sum of all the parts mentioned above. The people behind those have done what they can with the resources available to them. Producing film is a massive operation and it’s nigh on impossible for an individual or small business to make a genuine brand new one from scratch. It needs someone like Kodak to do it. Or Ilford with their Ortho Plus. Or Fuji with their Acros II (kinda made by Ilford). The Voigtlander 35mm f1.2 ASPH lens can focus to 0.5 meters but a Leica film camera rangefinder only works to 0.7m. That means if you don’t concentrate you can have the lens set to 0.5m-0.69m and the camera rangefinder set to 0.7m and it will mis-focus. Easily done during fast paced model photography. Tamron 45mm f1.8To get closer, let’s first take a tip from St. Thomas Aquinas and define this film in terms of what it is not. Despite its marketing as a professional film, Ektachrome is not the most capable, most accurate slide film on offer. That title still belongs to Fuji Provia 100F. Provia is a more versatile film because of its wider exposure latitude, and for my money, it’s a more accurate film when it comes to color balance. If pressed for a job that required an accurate color slide film, I’d choose Provia over Ektachrome. However, in some situations, particularly in underexposed regions, your Ektachrome scans may show fogging and colour shifts. This may be an appealing effect for some, but if you’d like to restore your colours and clarity to their full potential, there’s a simple method that will not add or take anything away from your image. Other film manufacturers use their own designations for nearly identical processes. They include Fujifilm's process CR-55 (E-4) and CR-56 (cross-licensed with Kodak's process E-6; but with slight variations in the first developer); and the now-discontinued Agfachrome and Konica's CRK-2 (E-6 equivalent). The E-6 process (often abbreviated to E-6) is a chromogenic photographic process for developing Ektachrome, Fujichrome and other color reversal (also called slide or transparency) photographic film.

Although the names sound similar, there are three different types of slide films that make up the current offering from Fujifilm, and each are distinct with their own specific strengths and weaknesses. Fujichrome Velvia 50 It’s also very forgiving for a reversal film, and has more dynamic range than most slide films, which makes it great for negative shooters who want to cross over to the positive side. All film is getting increasingly expensive, and seemingly the pandemic only made the pre-existing conditions worse. Kodak, in particular, however, seems to have raised prices more rapidly and to higher overall levels than its competitors; it’s been the subject of blog posts, forum conversations and podcasts throughout the film photography community for awhile now, so no need to rehash that here. To shoot Ektachrome, you really have to want to. For me, it’ll remain a choice that I’ll continue to justify, but it’s getting harder and harder to do so. What type of film is this? – Photo.net Film and Processing Forum". Photo.net. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007 . Retrieved May 14, 2015.

High Speed Ektachrome, announced in 1959 [3] provided an ASA 160 color film, [4] which was much faster than Kodachrome. In 1968, Kodak started offering push processing of this film, allowing it to be used at ASA 400. [5] The E-4 process was generally discontinued after 1977, although continued in use for Kodak PCF ( Photomicrography Color Film) until the 1980s, and for Kodak IE (Color Infra-red film) until 1996. This was due to a legal commitment by Kodak to provide the process for 30 years.