<<Ektar 100, any experience?
Yes, one of my favorites. I shot a bunch of rolls while traveling, but alas
have not done so since the before times. It is beautiful for landscapes and
not too bad for skin tones --sometimes. If not evenly lit, the skin of
Caucasians gets a bit ruddy
and I have trouble in PP rendering the skin tones just right. The film does
not tolerate underexposure well as the shadows get muddy and very very hard to
scan. AG made heroic scanning efforts to save some of my shots. The colors
seem to go a bit pastel if overexposed. It is very fine grained when well
exposed.
The shadows can get blue and sometimes go nuclear in that regard but easily
tamed after scanning. I found that pulling down the blue channel midway in
curves just a tad (mostly in shadows) is fa decent methodology to tame this. .
Others "fix" this in other ways. I don't Totally ablate it as it is an Ektar
signature. I am not usually a fan of hard profiling and totally ablating the
spectral characteristics of the film. I think AG would prefer to scan Porta
400 which has nicer skin tones but still good colors.
https://www.olyendomike.com/Bhutan-Bangkok-2017/i-MvBs6Cq/A
A place we stayed in France near Boussac: I don't know why I didn't straighten
it fully.
https://www.olyendomike.com/Other/Dordogne-Pays-Basque-2015/i-jNQgsLw/A
Looking forward to more film shooting these days, Mike
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