Kodak's new Ektar 100 print film boasts high color, minimal grain.
By Peter Kolonia September 10, 2008
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 http://www.kodak.com/.
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