Ektachrome 50T??

ektachrome · Sep 5, 2014

Hello
I have just found a very old 100' roll of Ektachrome 50 Tungsten, dated 1989, in my freezer.
It has been there since around 2005, after my grandfather gave it to me. He kept it in his fridge.

I have noticed it is the same letter code, product code, etc.., as the newer Ektachrome 64T.
I will post a photo later.

Does anyone know what the difference is between the films, and how I should shoot it. Is it even worth shooting?

Thanks
ektachrome

ektachrome · Sep 5, 2014

Here are the photos of the box.
Sorry about the crap quality, my phone camera sucks!

ektachrome

trythis · Sep 5, 2014

The T in the name indicates that it is for designed for shooting in tungsten lighting situations. Essentially indoors with incandescent bulbs. Slide film of that age is probably going to come out monochrome blue or red. lt might be scannable but will be worthless for projecting

It might be fun for us and cross processing, or processing with C 41 chemicals. The lomo kids might even buy it off of you if you hand roll it in charge 3 or 4 $ a roll

ektachrome · Sep 5, 2014

I have shot loads of 64T, so I know about tungsten film.
What I would like to know, is why the speed of the film was increased, and whether it will be usable.

Thanks anyway!
ektachrome

DREW WILEY · Sep 5, 2014

You'd probably have better luck trying to hatch a petrified dinosaur egg. Expect a blaaah image and a lot of crossover in the highlights. But maybe just as a fun experiment. It was decent stuff in its day, with a tad more latitude and better color balance than daylight films, though I
personally preferred Fuji 64T.

mopar_guy · Sep 5, 2014

It looks like your box say for "3200K".

I thought that Ektachrome 64 was balanced for 3400K.

You can get Photoflood bulbs for either temperature of light.

TimFox · Sep 5, 2014

mopar_guy said:
It looks like your box say for "3200K".

I thought that Ektachrome 64 was balanced for 3400K.

No, it was Kodachrome 40 that was balanced for 3400 K ("movie light").
At the end of Ektachrome 64T (EPY), it was balanced for 3200 K.

mopar_guy · Sep 5, 2014

TimFox said:
No, it was Kodachrome 40 that was balanced for 3400 K ("movie light").
At the end of Ektachrome 64T (EPY), it was balanced for 3200 K.

Oops. My bad.

sodarum · Sep 6, 2014

Usually when manufacturers give you an oddball ISO like that, I think it's because of filtration. When you put a #85 filter on it to use it in daylight, you get a nice rounded 50 ISO. So basically it's a 50D film and 64T. Same with 160T.

Edit: Actually I might be wrong about this. Does 85 take more than 1/3 stops?

Athiril · Sep 7, 2014

Custom first developer can restrain all fog and give much more decent slides than standard processing with old E-6 film. But I find a lot of these older Kodak slide films are not worth it due to poor grain and poor resolution and sharpness compared to what we have now (even when new).

lxdude · Sep 7, 2014

sodarum said:
Usually when manufacturers give you an oddball ISO like that, I think it's because of filtration.

I don't see why 64 would be oddball. Many daylight slide films were ISO 64. There was Kodachrome 64 and Kodachrome-X before it. Ektachrome-X and Agfachrome 64 were around for many years. There was also an ISO 64 daylight slide film from GAF.

trythis · Sep 7, 2014

ASA 64 is also 20 DIN, a nice round number, perhaps thats the reason it was more common back then?

sodarum · Sep 7, 2014

Sorry, I guess I'm kind of biased towards motion picture ISO ratings, which rarely had 64 in it. It's usually 50,100,200,250,500.But yes, now that I think about it; there are a lot of 64 ISO films, 160 too.

mopar_guy · Sep 7, 2014

In bright sun and ISO 64, a shutter speed of 1/60th sec and f16 gives correct exposure. I think that ISO 32, 64, 125 make very good sense.

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