Kodak, please bring back E100VS

pukalo · Oct 21, 2019

Kodak Elite Chrome 100 Extra Color aka E100VS was my all time favorite slide film. Vibrant, juicy colors yet great skin tones. Fuji no longer has a real equivalent to it. E100 is nice but not the same thing. I hope Kodak will consider bringing it back, even a small market test batch. Anyone else feel the same?

pukalo · Oct 21, 2019

it would compete nicely with Velvia 100 and 50., neither of which have the flexibility of scenics including people, nor general travel.

BrianShaw · Oct 21, 2019

Wouldn’t that be lovely!

DREW WILEY · Oct 21, 2019

I don't miss it. E100G was the best balanced Kodak E6 film of all. Want it warmer? Just add an 80A or 81A amber filter.

mshchem · Oct 21, 2019

Yeah, I really didn't like the VS or the SW stuff. In fact I started shooting Provia F, because it was so "normal" looking. I hope the current emulsion is a big hit.

GLS · Oct 22, 2019

pukalo said:
Vibrant, juicy colors yet great skin tones

This pretty much describes Provia 100F. From what I have seen of Kodak E6 the skintones lean too yellow for my liking. However if you like that look you can always add an 81A when shooting Provia.

thuggins · Oct 22, 2019

VS (aka Elite Chrome) was always my favorite. It'w what got me started shooting slides. There are a couple of dozen rolls still in the freezer.

The color palette and overall look is very different from the new Ektachrome, and certainly any Fuji product. It would be wonderful to have this option again, but it is more practical to hope for the new Ektachrome in 120. Try using a didymium filter with the new Ektachrome; that should give a look reminiscent of VS.

If we are going to expend our wishes on any new slide film, it would be for 400 (or at least 200) ASA. The stock of Provia 400 in the freezer is rapidly dwindling.

johnsb2 · Oct 22, 2019

Amen. While I'm a big fan of the new E100, VS was my all-time favorite. Just loaded my last roll of it in the stash on a trip last week.

iandvaag · Oct 23, 2019

Astia is probably the film I'd most like to have back. I think what is most missing from the currently available slide films is a lower contrast film. But a 400 speed film would also be very welcome.

Rudeofus · Oct 23, 2019

There's a group of customers called "harbingers of failure", and I seem to be such an indicator of doom. I absolutely loved Provia 400X, Astia, Acros and E100VS, which means these films were unpopular and had to be discontinued.

John Salim · Oct 24, 2019

Ektachrome E100VS would be the next best product EK could re-introduce ( in 35mm and Super 8mm ) because of it's similarity to Kodachrome !

John S

GarageBoy · Oct 24, 2019

E100VS did warm scenes so well (and made cool scenes warmer) - it's the best late summer/early fall film

MattKing · Oct 24, 2019

I was very fond of E100GX, which I shot in 120. I'm looking forward to the new Ektachrome in 120, to sort of compare.

flatulent1 · Oct 27, 2019

I would fill the freezer with E100VS in 120.

kruiwagen · Nov 1, 2019

My favorite slide film. To me it was the closest thing to Kodachrome. Still have some left in the freezer and still like it more than the current E100. Expired film prices for this film are skyrocketing.

Christiaan Phleger · Nov 5, 2019

I always thought the E100GX looked pretty Kodachrome 64 like but in E-6.
Since we are on the wishing for topic I think a top speed 1600 slide film using all the updated 2 electron technology would be a treat. Sports street and fashion could use the extra stops and whatever grain occurred would just add to the look. Think Tmax400 levels of grain at 1600.
Now that I think of it make it like the mulitspeed Ektapress films designed to be pushed. 400 and 1600 but in E-6. I'd shoot a wheelbarrow full of that.

Kodak, please bring back E100VS

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