Kodachrome 10 years ago?? 2009 was 10 years ago?
Ok, I checked and found K25 was discontinued in 2002. I had no idea when. It was just too darned slow for me to use anyway. I don't think I ever shot a single roll of it.
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Kodachrome 10 years ago?? 2009 was 10 years ago?
Ok, I checked and found K25 was discontinued in 2002. I had no idea when. It was just too darned slow for me to use anyway. I don't think I ever shot a single roll of it.
Ektar is a great landscape film, I find it does weird things to people's skin but that's just me. That is a damn good price for it as well. Snap his hand off
What he said and store it in the freezer.
It is (was) Kodak's Ektachrome 100D, a transparency film designed for motion picture use. Despite that, many people used the 35mm version in still cameras, as the processing was the same E-6 process. It was discontinued late last year, not at all unexpected given the discontinuation of all still transparency films a few months prior.
Walk in with a couple of pillow cases, fill them with Ektar 100, pay for it, send me a PM for my address. I will be more than happy to take several dozen rolls off your hands!
Good deal! I would have bought atleast a 10 pack brick on the spot, and I'm a guy that doesnt really shoot color haha. Ektar 100 and Fuji Reala are probably my favorites for mid speed color neg 120. I liked it much better than the Portra 160 VC when it was still around. I still have a few roll of Ektar 25 that I have been finishing off, and the results from it are still amazing.
Not mine but it is what I would consider as exceptional portrait using Kodak Ektar 100 -> Lily face
Password is "lily"
Of course it would take the perfect skin of a child to withstand the high resolving power and sharpness of Kodak Ektar.
I wish I could buy all that stock. Kodak Ektar 100 has not been on the market for very long so it wouldn't matter expired or not.
Password is "lily"
Of course it would take the perfect skin of a child to withstand the high resolving power and sharpness of Kodak Ektar.
I wish I could buy all that stock. Kodak Ektar 100 has not been on the market for very long so it wouldn't matter expired or not.
Right, that's what I meant, in shorthand, for MP 100D. And I got the feeling after kodachrome 25 was discontinued that the rest would go, so about then I started shooting as much of the rest as I could. Polaroid too (which I never really did much of, but some, while I could). I feel that way about all film now, esp. the last couple years; it's all too fast to keep up with now. Maybe not B/W (yet), but I'm not going to take any chances... Kodak has a fairly heavy recent history of telling us not to worry, there's XX--- film you can use instead, then discontinuing that too. So we'll see, but ask me in 3 or 5 years...
We won't booooh you unless you don't disclose the stores info particularly if they accept credit card/paypal and are willing to ship!
There should be 23 - 28 rolls left so please send me a private message of their contact info before disclosing it here . . .
There should be 23 - 28 rolls left so please send me a private message of their contact info before disclosing it here . . .
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Hi,
I keep you updated, kind regards,
igmolinav : ) !!!
Ha, ha, ha, : ) !!! The small photo business I bought the two rolls from, may have have had a pay pal option. I haven't asked them yet if they do pay pal. The other store, a drug store, has been selling the film as well. They don't use pay pal I am afraid. I have been to some of their stores and the shelves where Ektar was were empty. A saleswoman even removed the label from the shelf when I asked her about the film. She said it may not be restocked again!
I keep you updated, kind regards,
igmolinav : ) !!!
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Hi,
I keep you updated, kind regards,
igmolinav : ) !!!
Ha, ha, ha, : ) !!! The small photo business I bought the two rolls from, may have have had a pay pal option. I haven't asked them yet if they do pay pal. The other store, a drug store, has been selling the film as well. They don't use pay pal I am afraid. I have been to some of their stores and the shelves where Ektar was were empty. A saleswoman even removed the label from the shelf when I asked her about the film. She said it may not be restocked again!
I keep you updated, kind regards,
igmolinav : ) !!!
Ektar Colour neg
If there is anyone out there looking for an alternate source for Ektar 35mm, 120 and 4x5 go to www.morco.uk.com which is a company in UK and they have it all at quite reasonable prices too.
If there is anyone out there looking for an alternate source for Ektar 35mm, 120 and 4x5 go to www.morco.uk.com which is a company in UK and they have it all at quite reasonable prices too.
It's easy.
After scanning:
You just clip the shadow part of the blue and green channels with a curves adjustment and voila, neutral shadows.
(You can see the color-cast if you have a small "hill" on the blue and/or green channels shadow area and none on the red channel, clipping the blue and green, will rid you of the color cast.
Simple, fast and easy.
Sorry, the above is maybe DPUG-material, but I couldn't help myself.
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Why not use a 81A filter to begin with?
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You are only partially correct about this "clipping" business. Yes, you can shift the color temperature in
the shadows to warmer, but what you cannot do is isolate cross-contamination between the color layers
if the film has in fact underexposed them in the sense of overlapping the respective dye curves - once it
has occurred during actual exposure. You might improve things, but are not squarely addressing the
problem. Filtering in the first place is a better solution, though not itself always perfect. You not only
risk blue in the shadows, but a degree of mud. Most folks ignore this because they are just used to muddly color negs or artificially warmed shadows. But Ektar can be tamed to a degree if you understand it, and this involves correct exposure. Not that it isn't an issue with other films, but like I
said, people just get used to exposure errors and blame the film, pick another one, blah,blah. ... or worse, imagine they can correct anything afterwards. Well, I watched some poor dude spotting out a
silhouette of a mosquito on the sky of one of Ansel Adams's Mt Denali prints. I could be done - but it
would have been a helluva lot easier to chase the mosquito out of the bellows to begin with!
the shadows to warmer, but what you cannot do is isolate cross-contamination between the color layers
if the film has in fact underexposed them in the sense of overlapping the respective dye curves - once it
has occurred during actual exposure. You might improve things, but are not squarely addressing the
problem. Filtering in the first place is a better solution, though not itself always perfect. You not only
risk blue in the shadows, but a degree of mud. Most folks ignore this because they are just used to muddly color negs or artificially warmed shadows. But Ektar can be tamed to a degree if you understand it, and this involves correct exposure. Not that it isn't an issue with other films, but like I
said, people just get used to exposure errors and blame the film, pick another one, blah,blah. ... or worse, imagine they can correct anything afterwards. Well, I watched some poor dude spotting out a
silhouette of a mosquito on the sky of one of Ansel Adams's Mt Denali prints. I could be done - but it
would have been a helluva lot easier to chase the mosquito out of the bellows to begin with!
Buy it or lose it.
Sooner would be better.
Sooner would be better.
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