Few shots with the new Ektachrome

[bhop]

**New photos added, scroll down to reply #5**

I usually share a pic here and there in the film forum, but I wanted to share a few at once in case other people were interested in this film, so figured i'd post up here.

Nothing special, just some of my wanderings in L.A. I wanted to test out this new (re)release. So far it's pretty impressive.

Leica M2, Kodak Ektachrome 100, 50mm Summicron (scanned on Epson v700)

 

[markjwyatt]

Nice! Thanks for sharing. It is great to have more options in film.

 

[dxqcanada2]

I see they kept that "cool" tone.

 

[Derrel]

I shot a Lotta extra chrome in the 1980s. I always love the way it rendered blues. Still looks bluish. LOL. At least it's not all "clown car-ish" like onw of those "other" slide films...
Thank you for posting these interesting samples

 

[bhop]

Here are more, from a second roll I shot at the L.A. Arboretum. Same setup.. M2 + Summicron 50 + V700 scanner

 

[Roger Wade]

Was thinking of getting some as I shot lots of Kodachrome and Ektachrome back in the day. Is it easy enough to scan?
Thx

 

[razashaikh]

Here are more, from a second roll I shot at the L.A. Arboretum. Same setup.. M2 + Summicron 50 + V700 scanner

Nice set of pictures!

 

[bhop]

Was thinking of getting some as I shot lots of Kodachrome and Ektachrome back in the day. Is it easy enough to scan?
Thx

I found it a little more difficult (i use a V700, dedicated scanner might be different) It pre-scanned in darker than negative film and seems to have an ever so slight haze to it. Definitely looks better through a loupe, but as you can see, scans are doable.

 

[jcdeboever]

I am not sure on the film's look. It almost looks digital to me. I'm not being critical of your work, just something I notice every time I see images with it. It has a consistent look, thats for sure. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Derrel]

I am not sure on the film's look. It almost looks digital to me. I'm not being critical of your work, just something I notice every time I see images with it. It has a consistent look, thats for sure. Thanks for sharing.

"looks digital"???

Do you mean it has fine grain, high acutance, and does not look like crap?

 

[jcdeboever]

I am not sure on the film's look. It almost looks digital to me. I'm not being critical of your work, just something I notice every time I see images with it. It has a consistent look, thats for sure. Thanks for sharing.

"looks digital"???

Do you mean it has fine grain, high acutance, and does not look like crap?

Right. It looks digital. I didn't say I didn't like it. Just not much different than digital. May as well shoot digital is what I ponder...

 

[Derrel]

It does not look digital. The newest Ektachrome 100 looks like high-quality, fine-grained, color slide film; it looks the way high-quality, low-speed color slide film has looked for 40-plus years.

 

[jcdeboever]

It does not look digital. The newest Ektachrome 100 looks like high-quality, fine-grained, color slide film; it looks the way high-quality, low-speed color slide film has looked for 40-plus years.

I guess I should get some. I guess I used to my crappy C41 film.

 

[Derrel]

It does not look digital. The newest Ektachrome 100 looks like high-quality, fine-grained, color slide film; it looks the way high-quality, low-speed color slide film has looked for 40-plus years.

I guess I should get some. I guess I used to my crappy C41 film.

Yeah...fine-grained slide film looks better (cleaner, crisper,more-contrasty in many cases) and it scans better than color negative films because, I think, the slide film is a color positive, and does not depend so,so,so much on the scanner's scanning profile to translate the weird dye colors into real-world coloration. I think that lower-end scanners and average scanner operators do better work on color positive film than they do on color negative film. Also...it seems to me that labs that develop color slide film tend to do it "better" than labs that run C-41....because, and I have no well-tested observation for this, but only personal experience--they know that color slide shooters are typically "serious shooters" who expect good work from the lab, whereas color print shooters are often less-demanding customers. I feel that I myself can scan a color positive with better results than I can scan a C-41 color negative frame.

I used to work for a camera chain that had its own in-house developing lab; we ran C-41, but we outsourced all E-6 slide developing to a MUCH-better,bigger,regional lab. I will say honestly that our lab's C-41 work was....erratic, in terms of quality. The E-6 slides we got back were very consistently excellently-developed. I have 35mm and 4x5 sheet film E-6 developed in the mid-1980's from Betsy's Color Chrome...excellent developing...same with Kodachromes that Kodak souped in the early- to mid-1980's...very good quality developing....my C-41 images from the same era have a much grainier and "different" look to their images.

Color negative film and color positive films are an entirely different process.