Kodak PROFESSIONAL EKTAR 100 - Color print film - 135 (35 mm) - ISO 100 - 36 exposures

I remember how excited I was a couple of years ago when I found out that Kodak was going to release a NEW film. That excitement has definitely been justified.

Ektar 100 captures absolutely beautiful pictures. The grain is razor sharp and the colors are incredible. It has a unique look to it, which I've never seen with any other film (or digital for that matter). The colors are vibrant and saturated, especially red and blue. It's one of my favorite color films now. It's perfect for landscape and architectural photos, or any pictures where you really want the colors to "pop." If you take a picture of something red contrasting against the blue sky, it really jumps...much more so than I've seen with any other film.

Every film has its own unique characteristics and has a certain look. I like using Ektar for when I want kind of a "fresh" vibrant look to pictures, if that makes sense.

I've used Ektar in both 35mm and 120 size rolls.

The only minor complaint I have about Ektar is that it's extremely unforgiving with exposure. This is definitely NOT a film for beginners. It's very picky about exposure, and doesn't handle underexposure well at all. If you underexpose it, you will get some pretty weird color shifts and everything will have kind of a bluish tint. BUT if you use a light meter and you're careful about the exposure, you will get absolutely amazing pictures.

I also recommend that you get your pictures printed (on REAL silver halide photographic paper, not ink jet!) Ektar looks its best in prints, and scans displayed on a computer screen just don't do it justice.

I have been searching for this film - Kodak Ektar 100 35mm color print film, for ten years. Back during the early 1990's, I used this film with my new Canon camera to take photos at dog shows. The color prints I had enlarged from the Ektar 100 film were gems. And, those color enlarged prints of show dogs became the inspiration and subjects of artwork that launched my career as a professional artist and photographer in the dog show world.

One star has been subtracted from my rating of this film. This is due to harsh criticism from photo-developers, tourists who snap photos, photographers who favor other film companies, that the Ektar color films have the tendency to produce too much red in processing and color prints. If too much red is a problem for you then use another film. The Ektar films helped bring out all the rich color and tones in dogs, horses, cats, wildlife, that had "reddish" coat coloring for me to capture in my artwork. Use another film for your blues, greens, whites, if red is a problem for you.

If all you have is the means for scanning color prints, this is the film for you. Otherwise, try to still get some Ektachrome 100VS as that's much better.

I've been very happy with the results from this film, and am using the film with a Leica M3. I've seen some complaints on a Leica discussion site where people have had bad results with the film, but there are indications it may be due to the processing lab/company not developing the film as specified.