Kodak Ektalure paper

MattKing · Feb 6, 2022

Welcome to Photrio.
You need to re-size your photos to something like 1000 pixels on the long side. They should then upload easily.
The Ektalure paper may be of interest to some here. If you were local, I would be happy to get it from you.

hiroh · Oct 6, 2024

Sorry for reviving this old thread, but I thought it would be better than starting a new one for this simple question.

I saw some photos a long time ago, before I got into darkroom printing, and I was told they were printed on Kodak Ektalure, so I made a note of it. Now that I’m printing my own work on Ilford FB WT papers, I went back to those notes and started wondering if there’s anything available today that can replicate the look of Ektalure, or if toning is our only option now. Is it worth trying expired paper from that time?

mshchem · Oct 6, 2024

Foma Fomatone is marvelous paper. Ektalure had several surfaces that are gone for good. One contrast grade.

hiroh · Oct 6, 2024

mshchem said:
Foma Fomatone is marvelous paper. Ektalure had several surfaces that are gone for good. One contrast grade.

Ordering a 5x7 box to test it out. Thanks!

Nokton48 · Oct 6, 2024

Dawes Cedar Swamp 4x5 Norma 90mm SA Efke 100 PMK+ Ektalure Ektanol by Nokton48, on Flickr

Dawes Cedar Swamp 4x5 Norma 90mm F8 Super Angulon Efke 100 PMK+ Ektalure R Paper Omega DII 180mm Black Rodagon Ektanol Developer. 8x10 print photographed Minolta SRT Copy Stand Sony Nex-7 Zeiss 50mm F2.8 Touit lens. One of my first digitized fibre prints.

Melvin J Bramley · Oct 6, 2024

The Ektalure is likely fogged.
I sold a roll of old Ektalure to a Lith printer who put it to good use; I suggest you do the same.
Ektalure is a lith printers wet dream and in the right hands produces stunning prints.
With a mere 25 sheets you will hardly know the paper before it is all gone.
Make yourself a hero and a lith printers best friend!

hiroh · Jan 15, 2025

I love Ektalure, but I’ve never had the chance to try it. I’ve been checking regularly on eBay for the past six months, but no luck so far. Has anyone seen Ektalure for sale recently? It would be a great paper for lith these days.

dpurdy · Jan 15, 2025

This is a flashback. I went to a photography school in the 1970s and we were required to use Ektalure K. I used it for a few years and never considered it anything but neutral tone. Then I tried a box of (the old) Portriga Rapid when it was still current and never used Ektalure again. The Portriga seemed to me to have a brownish tone while the Extalure had a greenish tone. You had to selenium tone Ektalure to get rid of the green.

RPC · Jan 15, 2025

dpurdy said:
This is a flashback. I went to a photography school in the 1970s and we were required to use Ektalure K. I used it for a few years and never considered it anything but neutral tone. Then I tried a box of (the old) Portriga Rapid when it was still current and never used Ektalure again. The Portriga seemed to me to have a brownish tone while the Extalure had a greenish tone. You had to selenium tone Ektalure to get rid of the green.

Did you try developing Ektalure in Selectol? I did and got nice brown tones-no green. With Dektol, there may have been a hint of green.

Augustus Caesar · Jan 16, 2025

Craig said:
I did a search here for Ektalure, I see lots about it, but nothing about contrast. It was mentioned that it only came in one grade, what would that be? I was gifted a partly used package of 8x10, so what sort of negative is suitable for use with it?

If my reading of the curves in the tech sheet is correct ( Highly unlikely!) it seems like it is suited to high contrast negatives?

The contrast grade of Ektalure was about 3.

Vincent_A · Sep 9, 2025

I've got one unopened box of the R left, had it for 20 years. Got it from an old friend who had cases of it around and always said "Now I just have to print it all before I die"...then he died. I dont know what happened to his paper collection but you coulda filled a U-Haul with it. I'm going to Lith print it. As stated here, it prints beautifully if you're into Lith printing - but at 5 to 10 dollars a sheet if you can find it on eBay, probably going to let that ship sail after this one. Saw a box of 10 sheets of 20/24 for 35$ a sheet recently! Guys out there selling folklore. It is a lovely paper, but there are many more...and if you Lith, you can get similar lovely results with even older papers with no folklore attached.

Guillaume Zuili · Sep 9, 2025

Vincent_A said:
I've got one unopened box of the R left, had it for 20 years. Got it from an old friend who had cases of it around and always said "Now I just have to print it all before I die"...then he died. I dont know what happened to his paper collection but you coulda filled a U-Haul with it. I'm going to Lith print it. As stated here, it prints beautifully if you're into Lith printing - but at 5 to 10 dollars a sheet if you can find it on eBay, probably going to let that ship sail after this one. Saw a box of 10 sheets of 20/24 for 35$ a sheet recently! Guys out there selling folklore. It is a lovely paper, but there are many more...and if you Lith, you can get similar lovely results with even older papers with no folklore attached.View attachment 407077

Love the background of that pic ! Love that kind of vault

Patrick Robert James · Sep 9, 2025

Vincent_A said:
I've got one unopened box of the R left, had it for 20 years. Got it from an old friend who had cases of it around and always said "Now I just have to print it all before I die"...then he died. I dont know what happened to his paper collection but you coulda filled a U-Haul with it. I'm going to Lith print it. As stated here, it prints beautifully if you're into Lith printing - but at 5 to 10 dollars a sheet if you can find it on eBay, probably going to let that ship sail after this one. Saw a box of 10 sheets of 20/24 for 35$ a sheet recently! Guys out there selling folklore. It is a lovely paper, but there are many more...and if you Lith, you can get similar lovely results with even older papers with no folklore attached.View attachment 407077

Dang Vincent, you better get printing! That is quite the stash....

Don_ih · Sep 9, 2025

It would take 10000 years to lith print all that paper.

I'd try regular enlarging on the Ektalure before deciding on lith.

mshchem · Sep 9, 2025

Vincent_A said:
I've got one unopened box of the R left, had it for 20 years. Got it from an old friend who had cases of it around and always said "Now I just have to print it all before I die"...then he died. I dont know what happened to his paper collection but you coulda filled a U-Haul with it. I'm going to Lith print it. As stated here, it prints beautifully if you're into Lith printing - but at 5 to 10 dollars a sheet if you can find it on eBay, probably going to let that ship sail after this one. Saw a box of 10 sheets of 20/24 for 35$ a sheet recently! Guys out there selling folklore. It is a lovely paper, but there are many more...and if you Lith, you can get similar lovely results with even older papers with no folklore attached.View attachment 407077

Beautiful, and Welcome to Photrio!

Vincent_A · Sep 10, 2025

Haha, you guys are great...that's about 1/4 the stash...about to start my sons on black and white photography with some old F3's...maybe they'll print it all in the end!

Kodak Ektalure paper

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