Ektachrome E100 test rolls are OUT

[Sal Santamaura]

...None of them post on this site due to how caustic it is in terms of how people engage on here. I told them that is probably a good idea...

I disagree, Dan. The best way to overcome what you describe as "caustic" is by overwhelming it with "non-caustic."

 

[Ai Print]

Fair enough, some folks I know and mentor are members here but don’t post and have went elsewhere for resources but that does not mean they won’t come back if the tone improves.

I am not going to be the one to say, “Hey, the water is fine, come back in” as it is up to them to decide if it is a place they want to participate in or not.

The big issue here is what I call the “Fart in the buffet line” effect and that is all it takes is one very nasty person to push out their foul air and ruin the dining experience for everyone in proximity.

We’ll see what happens I guess....

 

[AgX]

I am seeing far more people out and about with real cameras....some DLSRS and an equal amount of film equipment - much of it vintage. Just yesterday while having coffee and then dinner in the City of London (business area pretty unpopular on weekends) I saw three people with film SLRs walk past the coffee shop. I see young people with 80s Nikons, 70s Pentaxes. The strange looks as if I am mad when out and about with a film camera have changed to knowing looks, questions about my "gear". Sure, some people don't get it but the frequency with which I am met with enthusiasm has drastically increased. Wander around Camden with a 50s camera and people *want* to be photographed. Take a digital camera or phone and they are paranoid. Go figure.

I've written before about taking an SLR to the beach and being accused of all sorts of mal-intent. That seems to have changed, last month I was not only the only person with a film SLR at the beach but my TLR got some approving looks too.

Strange, I do not see them... (Well, we got an own thread on such encounters, showing very contradictory experiences.)

 

[Roger Thoms]

Back in the 1980s and 90s I was very positive. But over time I’ve become entirely negative. Dang...

Sometimes I get very negative, but then I get in the darkroom and become positive again.

Roger

 

[Adrian Bacon]

Whiners don't make photographs..they are too busy commenting or bitching negatively
Darn a new film is coming out and it is exciting to me

Same here. I’m excited. I shot a ridiculous amount of Kodak slide film when I was a kid, I’d love for my kids to have that experience, and it’s also just a wonderful thing to have a frame you can hold up to the light and look at. C-41 and BW have their uses, but slide film has that intangible “hey, look at” to it just by holding the frame up.

 

[Cholentpot]

Strange, I do not see them... (Well, we got an own thread on such encounters, showing very contradictory experiences.)

You might be hanging around the wrong places.

I was at a Civil War re-enactment today and aside from the two LF tintypers making a buck I saw more cameras than I am worth. Every kind of camera under the sun, I brought an F3 with an MD and a 70-210 and I felt like I under packed.

 

[RattyMouse]

Same here. I’m excited. I shot a ridiculous amount of Kodak slide film when I was a kid, I’d love for my kids to have that experience, and it’s also just a wonderful thing to have a frame you can hold up to the light and look at. C-41 and BW have their uses, but slide film has that intangible “hey, look at” to it just by holding the frame up.

Your kids can't shoot Fuji slide film?

 

[AgX]

You might be hanging around the wrong places.

I'm at major cities, at the art scene, at camera stores, weekly at academies, speak with photo students and their lecturers, including a very famous place, am at student feests.

But you are right, as that other thread indicated the occurance of interest is very inhomogeneous.


Actually there had been differences in the good old days already. While there were amateurs in the USA doing LF work, there was hardly any amateur at all in Germany doing so, there was no reference to LF in amateur photo magazines, and noone ever heard of Ansel Adams. For sure not me, but I knew of Weegee...

 

[Minoltafan2904]

Apparently the Super-8 "Beta rolls" have been sent out now aswell.

 

[Minoltafan2904]

Same here. I’m excited. I shot a ridiculous amount of Kodak slide film when I was a kid, I’d love for my kids to have that experience, and it’s also just a wonderful thing to have a frame you can hold up to the light and look at. C-41 and BW have their uses, but slide film has that intangible “hey, look at” to it just by holding the frame up.

+1

 

[Cholentpot]

I'm at major cities, at the art scene, at camera stores, weekly at academies, speak with photo students and their lecturers, including a very famous place, am at student feests.

But you are right, as that other thread indicated the occurance of interest is very inhomogeneous.


Actually there had been differences in the good old days already. While there were amateurs in the USA doing LF work, there was hardly any amateur at all in Germany doing so, there was no reference to LF in amateur photo magazines, and noone ever heard of Ansel Adams. For sure not me, but I knew of Weegee...

And at these things no-one is packing cameras of any type? A quick trip to the Zoo or a walk along the lake-shore and I'll spot a few dozen DSLRs easy.

 

[AgX]

Yes, DSLRs are very common here. Actually I never saw a decline in the absolute use of DSLRs, but a vast increase of cellphones, tablets smartphones.


Over the last ten years my count of encounters with people sporting a film camera was constantly less than 10 a year. Which is not surprising if you look at that respective thread.

And yes, I have met meanwhile a few people in their early 20s starting film photography.
But actually I met the same number of the same age group that stopped film photpgraphy after cranking one or two films through their 100€ Lomography cameras. The latter is hardly discussed at Apug.

 

[Cholentpot]

Yes, DSLRs are very common here. Actually I never saw a decline in the absolute use of DSLRs, but a vast increase of cellphones, tablets smartphones.


Over the last ten years my count of encounters with people sporting a film camera was constantly less than 10 a year. Which is not surprising if you look at that respective thread.

And yes, I have met meanwhile a few people in their early 20s starting film photography.
But actually I met the same number of the same age group that stopped film photpgraphy after cranking one or two films through their 100€ Lomography cameras. The latter is hardly discussed at Apug.

I find the ones that use their DSLRs extensively will go out and get a proper SLR and shoot it till it dies. The Lomo peeps shoot for thrills and when they see that getting film, scans, and prints comes out to $35+ and they only get one or two good images off their lomo they give up.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

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I was at a Civil War re-enactment today and aside from the two LF tintypers making a buck I saw more cameras than I am worth. Every kind of camera under the sun, I brought an F3 with an MD and a 70-210 and I felt like I under packed.

Where is this magical place where people carry cameras, Brigadoon?

And at these things no-one is packing cameras of any type? A quick trip to the Zoo or a walk along the lake-shore and I'll spot a few dozen DSLRs easy.

At the zoo many times - nothing but cellphones. No DSLRs, no compact P&Ss, just phones. I'm carrying a real film SLR with decent lens - it attracts no attention because people most likely interpret it as a drink bottle and box of food.

 

[Cholentpot]

Where is this magical place where people carry cameras, Brigadoon?







At the zoo many times - nothing but cellphones. No DSLRs, no compact P&Ss, just phones. I'm carrying a real film SLR with decent lens - it attracts no attention because people most likely interpret it as a drink bottle and box of food.

Hale Farm and Village, Bath Ohio.

I guess next time I take out the evil DSLR I'll creep on people using cameras and document the amazing phenom!

 

[Minoltafan2904]

I went down to my local lab about a week ago and the owener was talking to a 15, yes 15!! year old girl who was interested in film photography and was picking out some "assorted" films to try with the Yashica her grandmother or something had given her.
Whenever i go rarely do i not have to wait in line 10 or 15 minutes because people are dropping off film, a couple weeks ago some guy who was probably in his late teens or early 20s dropped off no less than 18 rolls of Velvia...
So yes my feeling is that young people are very interested in film photography.

 

[Minoltafan2904]

By the way we have developed shots of the new E100 now!! i like what i see

 

[BradS]

It has been posited that the new Ektachrome is E100G....is there any evidence to support or contradict this hypothesis?

 

[BrianShaw]

It has been posited that the new Ektachrome is E100G....is there any evidence to support or contradict this hypothesis?

How about the edge marking in that test image?

 

[BradS]

How about the edge marking in that test image?

I see only, "E100"....which seems inconclusive to me.

 

[Prest_400]

It has been posited that the new Ektachrome is E100G....is there any evidence to support or contradict this hypothesis?

I guess the new Ektachrome will just simply be called E100. They posted in the update about it being based off E100G and being similar.

 

[BradS]

I guess the new Ektachrome will just simply be called E100. They posted in the update about it being based off E100G and being similar.

thanks....where is this posted? I could not find any information on the Kodak website.

 

[Prest_400]

thanks....where is this posted? I could not find any information on the Kodak website.

Under the image the link attached itself. They're quite active over social media which is great as lots of activity is happening there, community wise. As faulty as social media is, it's quite useful for this purpose. Infact, thinking about it, it's no longer such a closed off traditional Kodak I remember from years ago, although the web resources and infinite Tech Pubs were invaluable.

https://www.facebook.com/kodakprofessional/
https://www.instagram.com/kodakprofessional/
https://twitter.com/kodakprofilmbiz

As of the more formal characteristics that Poisson du Jour expressed (on the other thread I think), I suppose Kodak's internal testing is taking care of it as eventually they should release the datasheet. Beta testing is a good way to get an informal glimpse and keep morale high I guess.

 

[AgX]

All those 3 sites above are from Kodak Alaris, not from Kodak.

 

[MattKing]

All those 3 sites above are from Kodak Alaris, not from Kodak.

Or more correctly, Kodak Alaris, not Eastman Kodak.
Eastman Kodak markets and manufactures motion picture film.
Kodak still film? Kodak Alaris markets it, and buys it from Eastman Kodak, who manufacture it to Kodak Alaris' orders.