Kodak EPT Gone?

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So, Kodak EPT seems to be off the catalogs at all of the usual retailers in 120 format.

Is it gone in the 120 format?
 

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Why would a T balanced film need to be 400 or 800iso?
I have never seen an 800iso T film. Kodak made at one time (and may still) an iso 320 T balanced chrome. Most T balanced films are iso 64-160, which generally makes them 1/2 to 1.5 stops faster then a comparable daylight balanced film when using a tungsten to daylight filter.
 

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Low speed tungsten is desired.

ajuk said:
I don't understand, surly for a Tungsten film to be usefully it would need to be at least 400, 800 ideally.
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Not at all true. I have used extensively in the past low speed tungsten balanced color transparency and color negative films to produce product photography using a large variety of complex studio tungsten lights, similar to movie studio lights. This is the way it all used to be done. These 2000 watt Fresnel fixtures on roll around stands have very precise shape and control of the cone of light, and have barn doors and snoots and all sorts of light modifiers to creat a beautiful image with light. For this type of work, a low speed fine grain material is needed. This used to be the bread and butter photography of a Commercial Studio.

You are thinking of applications totally different, such as available light photography in 35mm. I am talking studio photography in 4x5 or 8x10,
or 11x14 transparencies.
 
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Dono. I want it because I like to shoot it at night and then cross it.

EPT crossed doesn't look a thing like Elitechrome 400 through an 80C and then crossed.

Sure, I could get roughly the same results in Photoshop... but then I might as well be shooting digital.
 

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Use Fujichrome T64. Very good sharpness.
Small inconvenience : 3100 K (instead of 3200 K).
Do with Kodak what it did with us : forget it.
 

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Sergio. RPT is nothing like EPT and vice versa. EPT has a unique palette, wonderful grain excellent latitude and (there was a url link here which no longer exists) like no other.

Kodak has forgotten us how; by offering more choice in excellent film than the market can bear; by updating their product; or is it because they are trying to keep the company from going belly up?

Kodak is a company not a charity.
 

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PHOTOTONE said:
You are thinking of applications totally different, such as available light photography in 35mm. I am talking studio photography in 4x5 or 8x10,
or 11x14 transparencies.
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Yeah thats what I always thought 800Z and Portra 800 were for available light, and I would have thoguth that would be more than likely tungsten. FWIW I think tungsten lighting its self is probably going to be on its way out soon at least in studios as LED technology becomes more advanced.
 
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So? What about incandescent lights in the house that are much closer to tungsten than daylight... and most lighting intended for home use is going to match that, not daylight too...

And remember that HMI, which gets a lot of use on the bigger movie sets, is closer to daylight balance. Phosphor-based and tri-color technologies (cold cathode, florescent, LEDs) can be set to whatever color balance you want. I suspect that they'll stick with tungsten balance until they stop using film and probably beyond, simply because that's what people are used to dealing with.
 

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they'll stick with the tungsten simply because it's paid for & it's cheap. try figuring out how much it will cost a studio to upgrade to HMI lights, from a stable of mole-richardsons or arri's, and it wil become apparent pretty fast (I know--been there/done that). tungsten's not going anywhere anytime soon in terms of studio work, since it's also a great source for digital, and video--multimedia etc, where everything in the commercial world is headed. I think we'll be using our moles & lowells longer than the speedotrons to be honest.

EPY, EPN--they seem like old-fashioned films compared to the newer stuff, but they're the tools of the trade for product, architectural & furniture work. anything for accurate color repro.
 
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I finally called up Kodak.

EPT (160T) and EPJ (320T) are both gone. They've been out of production for some months now.
 
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