Can expired E6 film fail entirely?

Roger Cole · Nov 15, 2022

blee1996 said:
I bought a small lot (20 or so rolls of 120) shortly after they were discontinued, and kept in cold storage since. The expiration date is 2006-09, but they are "fresh" in terms of image quality and ISO ratings. I particularly like their rendition of skin tone and people, both in natural and flash lighting. But since there is so little choice in fresh chromes nowadays, I use them for general photography as well.

That's nice to know that yours has kept so well. I don't recall exactly when I bought mine, and I got a few rolls when I bought a big box of assorted 120 film someone sold who was getting out of medium format, but I've keep it frozen since. I like Kodak E100G quite a lot actually, I just wish there were some faster choices on today's market. I hope my frozen (and definitely bought new when the discontinuation was announced) Provia 400X has kept well frozen as well.

blee1996 · Nov 15, 2022

Roger Cole said:
That's nice to know that yours has kept so well. I don't recall exactly when I bought mine, and I got a few rolls when I bought a big box of assorted 120 film someone sold who was getting out of medium format, but I've keep it frozen since. I like Kodak E100G quite a lot actually, I just wish there were some faster choices on today's market. I hope my frozen (and definitely bought new when the discontinuation was announced) Provia 400X has kept well frozen as well.

I was lucky to get 10 rolls of E100G (exp 2013-01) recently that turns out to be gorgeous! In full sun, the fall colors and blue sky just pops. I prefer E100G over Astia 100F for landscape, especially in the vibrant fall color season. A few contact sheets of late, both home processed in Tetenal E6 kit.

Contact sheet Ricohflex E100G second roll by Zheng, on Flickr

Contact sheet Ricohflex E100G first roll by Zheng, on Flickr

Roger Cole · Nov 17, 2022

I was thinking the new E100 was also called G. I see it's been changed to D. I haven't tried any yet (I have quite a bit of frozen 100G still, at least in 35mm.)

blee1996 · Nov 17, 2022

This is the first roll from E100D:

Euphoric - Ektachrome 100D

A resurrected color slide film for cinema, and in particular, HBO's second season of TV show "Euphoric". There are vendors who re-spool the long cine rolls into 135 cassettes, so we can use it in still film cameras. It is pure E6 processing, without needing any remjet removal.

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Alan Edward Klein · Nov 18, 2022

Nice job.

Roger Cole · Nov 19, 2022

blee1996 said:
This is the first roll from E100D:

Euphoric - Ektachrome 100D

A resurrected color slide film for cinema, and in particular, HBO's second season of TV show "Euphoric". There are vendors who re-spool the long cine rolls into 135 cassettes, so we can use it in still film cameras. It is pure E6 processing, without needing any remjet removal.

flickr.com

That's the repsooled "Euphoria." How if at all does it differ from regular commercial Kodak E100D?

Kodak Ektachrome E100D 100 ISO 35mm x 36 exposures | Freestyle Photo & Imaging

THIS ITEM IS LIMITED TO 100 PER ORDER, PER DAY. If you place multiple orders, ALL of your orders may be canceled. Stock status is updated periodically, orders are filled first-come, first-served. IN STOCK status does not guarantee fulfillment.EKTACHROME Film…

www.freestylephoto.biz

MattKing · Nov 19, 2022

I'm not sure whether or not the motion picture lengths of new Ektachrome 100D have different (motion picture) perforations than the still film version.
But my very well informed Eastman Kodak sources have confirmed that the two versions of the film are otherwise entirely identical. The perforations are probably the same too - I forgot to ask.
The Euphoric version is just someone cutting and re-packaging the movie lengths.

John Salim · Nov 20, 2022

MattKing said:
I'm not sure whether or not the motion picture lengths of new Ektachrome 100D have different (motion picture) perforations than the still film version.
But my very well informed Eastman Kodak sources have confirmed that the two versions of the film are otherwise entirely identical. The perforations are probably the same too - I forgot to ask.
The Euphoric version is just someone cutting and re-packaging the movie lengths.

The m/p rolls will have BH perforations ( not KS as with stills films ), as well as 'keycode' stencilled edgecoding ( no conventional 'x' to '40' frame numbers ).

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