can the new Ektar 100 be pushed ?

[jeje]

let's say to 400 or 800 ?

anyone tried this ? what kind of result?

thanks

jerome

 

[Ektagraphic]

I have not tried it. I have never pushed negative film. I would imagine that it can be pushed.

 

[2F/2F]

All film can be overdeveloped; b/w, C-41, and E-6. You need to just try it a few times for yourself to see if it works for *your application*. I imagine it will look very neat with Ektar.

 

[Bill Harrison]

My wife can.

 

[nickandre]

PLEASE DON'T! It's wasting a perfectly good film.

It will work, you can push C41 film. I've never heard of a three stop push though. I pushed 2 stops once. For many scenes it will probably not make a difference like a vibrant abstraction, though you will probably see it in mixed light and natural looking things. May I ask why you are trying this? It is a slow landscape film.

 

[2F/2F]

PLEASE DON'T! It's wasting a perfectly good film.

It will work, you can push C41 film. I've never heard of a three stop push though. I pushed 2 stops once. For many scenes it will probably not make a difference like a vibrant abstraction, though you will probably see it in mixed light and natural looking things. May I ask why you are trying this? It is a slow landscape film.

Pretty over-dramatic and nonsensical response.

It is a photographic tool that can be used however one wants it to be used.

Experiment away. See what happens. How can it hurt, and what's it to you?

 

[Robert Liebermann]

Right, agree with 2f or whatever - experiment, maybe under some different conditions, maybe a test patch (of color that is), then decide where you could use that look, if anywhere. It'll be like an entirely new film. Whether it's looking like faded konicacolor 200 or something really, really magical is part fate, part luck, part application - and always worth a try!

 

[hrst]

IMO Ektar 100 seems to have quite good shadow details. I forgot my meter at 400 and shoot some pictures at 400 and they are usable (with normal development). So I have been thinking that it could be easily pushed to 400. Try it.

 

[jeje]

i will try to push it and will share the results with you

i don't want to push it just for fun, but sometime you have a picture to take and you don't necessarily have the right film , so knowing that i can push the Ektar to 400 & 800 can sometime makes a difference between taking a picture and leave the camera in the bag....

thanks

jerome

 

[WGibsonPhotography]

i will try to push it and will share the results with you

i don't want to push it just for fun, but sometime you have a picture to take and you don't necessarily have the right film , so knowing that i can push the Ektar to 400 & 800 can sometime makes a difference between taking a picture and leave the camera in the bag....

thanks

jerome

I have two rolls of Ektar 100 in 35mm form in the mail right now. According to FesEx, it should be here tomorrow. It did take it two days to go from Memphis to Nashville, so I'm getting kinda skeptical :/ They've never been late before, so I'm sure it will be here tomorrow Between 11:00AM and 1:00PM (which is usually when the FedEx and UPS people show up around here).

I think I might try pushing one just for the fun of it, just to see how it'll look. There's really nothing to lose and only wisdom to gain, so why not give it a shot

 

[Mark Antony]

If you expose it at 400 it will be fine, shadows will lose detail in some conditions but I have been surprised by the latitude of Ektar.
Look at the -2– +1 tests here:
Ektar 100 evaluation
If you push it in the development rather than just under-expose you may get cross curves or weird colours which depending on your subject (dim interiors under tungsten will be fine) may or may not 'work'.

 

[BetterSense]

Heck the two-stops-underexposed shot looks fine to me, even with normal minilab development.

 

[WGibsonPhotography]

I have Adorama up in another window and noticing that Ektar in 120 is almost a dollar cheaper than 35mm. Could that be a preorder special?

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