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Princess Jarlyn Young
09-13-2008, 01:53 PM
Kodak intros new film!

Kodak's new Ektar 100 print film boasts high color, minimal grain.

By Peter Kolonia
September 10, 2008

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/cezjarlynyoung/ektar100kodak.jpg


Kodak's first significant new print film in several years, Professional Ektar 100 is also the first color negative still film to incorporate recent Kodak advances in motion picture films. That technology, known as Kodak Vision, gives the new Ektar 100 print film a new level of fine grain, rich saturation, and resolving power said to equal that of E6 slide film. In fact, with its combination of superior grain, color saturation, and resolution, Ektar 100 is expected to draw converts from the E6 world.


Kodak's original Ektar C-41 color print film hit stores in mid 1988 to great acclaim. The finest-grain color negative film available at the time, its primary limitations were its slow speed (ISO 25) and extremely narrow latitude. (For optimum results, users had to nail exposure more or less exactly.) The new Ektar 100, offers additional speed, and even finer grain, but is much more forgiving of minor exposure deviation, able to deliver top results even with slight under- (to -1 stop) or overexposure (to +2 stops).


The film's extremely fine granular structure incorporates a hybrid of T-Grain and, and in the slow-speed layers, cubic-grain (i.e. conventional silver grain) technologies. Compared to Kodak's other fine-grain print film for professional photographers, Portra 160, Ektar 100 is said to deliver finer grain and noticeably more vivid color.


Designed for nature, travel, fashion and product photography, 35mm Ektar 100 should be in stores by November, 2008, with prices somewhat higher than those of Portra 160. For more information, visit www.kodak.com (http://www.kodak.com/).

from: http://www.popphoto.com/photonews/5518/kodak-intros-new-film.html




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Just wanna share this... i wonder if there's stock of this film here in the Philippines.. i've been trying to go back to film these days.. so far.. i've tried the B&W tmax100 and tri-x400.. i have yet to see the output.. been talking to friends about film and reading them online.. so far.. im loving it! and still learning of course!



and yes, FILM IS DEFINITELY NOT DEAD! :)

daniel go
09-13-2008, 02:37 PM
WOW!! This is great because it means continued support for the film format!! :)

otep_benavides
09-13-2008, 02:44 PM
uy, they brought back ektar. this was discontinued during the late 80's or early 90's (i'm not too sure exactly when)

Princess Jarlyn Young
09-13-2008, 03:04 PM
WOW!! This is great because it means continued support for the film format!! :)

yeah.. i was really glad that they continue to release new or even continue to produce existing films. :) like what otep said.. it was discontinued.. but im really glad that they are still supporting the film industry.

i still believe that if you really wanna learn photography, you have to go back to the basics.. :)

uy, they brought back ektar. this was discontinued during the late 80's or early 90's (i'm not too sure exactly when)

really??? isn't this good news? :) i hope there's available stocks here. probably kodak representative can answer/ help us? hihih.

Derick_Gamboa
09-13-2008, 03:32 PM
When's the next film EB? Otep, i thought you said yes to organizing one? Organize it, and i'll sweet talk Uncle Miguel to sponsor the same "instamatic" camera we use in the "Indian-pana" contest. And for the die-hard film aficionados, we can get films to be given away as prices!!

Marty Enrile
09-13-2008, 04:46 PM
When's the next film EB? Otep, i thought you said yes to organizing one? Organize it, and i'll sweet talk Uncle Miguel to sponsor the same "instamatic" camera we use in the "Indian-pana" contest. And for the die-hard film aficionados, we can get films to be given away as prices!!

Uncle Derick, sama ako dito! And yes, FILM IS NOT DEAD (neither is vinyl) :). Looking forward to the release of the Ektar soon...

otep_benavides
09-13-2008, 04:50 PM
oops koya derick remembered. i'll try to find a day koya :D

Antonio L. Abong
09-13-2008, 05:08 PM
Thanks for the News Princess. This is really a great news for film users. :)

Derick_Gamboa
09-13-2008, 06:18 PM
oops koya derick remembered. i'll try to find a day koya :D

To drive the point that film is not dead, let's do an all BLACK & WHITE film shoot -

Categories:
1. Urban photography
2. Architectural photography,
3. Nude photography,
4. Night photography,
5. Street life
4. Portraiture

Any film camera............. any film size............. :)

David Tong
09-13-2008, 06:21 PM
Thanks for the good news!!!!!!! Hope to find one here :D

Pilar Tuason
09-13-2008, 06:57 PM
Something to look forward to. Thanks for the info:)

joseph barretto
09-13-2008, 07:49 PM
after being dead in the forum, this brought me back to life. I am excited to see how this turns out :)

MelvinSevilla
09-13-2008, 07:50 PM
Definitely, good news for all filmaholics out there...

I think Kodak got the new sales figures for film and realize that the market has picked up (partly thanks to all the Lomo dudes out there) and decided that film is indeed alive and well...

ari_velazco
09-14-2008, 08:56 AM
Eb!........eb!.........eb! :)

Princess Jarlyn Young
09-15-2008, 01:02 PM
Eb!........eb!.........eb! :)

i second to that!!! :)

how about an EB!!! it's been quite a while since we held something like this..

paging paging aly! hahaahah :D

im definitely joining this one! :) or even help organize it! hahah :D

Princess Jarlyn Young
09-15-2008, 01:04 PM
Thanks for the good news!!!!!!! Hope to find one here :D

hey there david!

i've been to singapore before.. but didn't see any film stores.. hahaa. maybe i was going to the wrong places.. hihi. any film that we can avail there? rare ones? hihih.

David Tong
09-15-2008, 01:55 PM
Group buy group buy...

Cez: There are quite a lot of film stores here, Cathay themselves stock almost every type available in the market... :) I'll let you guys know when I find some.

Princess Jarlyn Young
09-15-2008, 07:10 PM
Group buy group buy...

Cez: There are quite a lot of film stores here, Cathay themselves stock almost every type available in the market... :) I'll let you guys know when I find some.


COOLLL!!!! that's great!!! il watch out for that! ;) thanks thanks! :) so excited!

Sonny Thakur
09-15-2008, 08:21 PM
Im game for the group buy :D
at least 30 rolls for me :P

reybaptista
09-16-2008, 09:54 AM
thanks for sharing this really good news cez!

and i agree, going back to basics is the way to go really learn this craft!

cheers!

~rey

MelvinSevilla
11-14-2008, 06:35 PM
Some first impression of the Ektar100...

http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=873329

Looks like a nice film... But i think its being sold for 5usd/roll (around 240php/roll)... Quite expensive for an iso100 print film...

Erwin Anthony Naņes
12-04-2008, 11:35 PM
gonna have to dig up the old camera... which leads me to this utterly ignorant sounding question: where can one still get black and white film here?

otep_benavides
12-05-2008, 12:12 AM
erwin, there's lots from fuji and kodak on b&w film.

Erwin Anthony Naņes
12-05-2008, 08:52 AM
thanks. the last time i popped into a photo store in a mall all I saw were Advantix rolls, so I thought film was now a rare commodity.

ari_velazco
12-05-2008, 09:38 AM
You can get Ilford films from Aperture Trading in all sizes from 135 rolls to 8x10 sheet films