Kodak Ektachrome 100 - Film Review

Last year, I gave my brother 2 rolls of cheap, respooled Ektachrome motion picture film! I said to him, that he should try cross processing it, and so he did! Then he wanted to slap me, because the film was BLUE OVERALL ACROSS THE NEGATIVE! So 1 year later, I managed to buy an 81B filter to try to balance the negatives pre-development! HELL YEAH! The results were great! Just a quick note: It came back still a bit greenish bluish, retrospective I think an 81C filter would have been the sweet spot for this project, I’ve considered buing one, but it would have been 50% more expensive than the 81B back then! The contrasts are overwhelming! A recommendation based on my experiences: You don’t need to overexpose it, because that will inevitably blow out your complete highlights! Just try to meter for the darkest parts in the scene and hope for the best! I’ve tried this technique and nearly all of the shots turned out great to fairly usable! If you shoot it indoors or under artificial lighting, you’ll get a strong green cast, even with an 81B-filter and I got the usual signs of underexpsure! So: YES, absolutely doable on box speed with enough light on sunny days, but please don’t shoot anything indoors!

I have worked with all well-known professional slide films. Besides the legendary Kodachrome 64, Ektachrome was the best.

I’ve yet to find a film that is more enjoyable to use than Ektachrome. Don’t get me wrong- it’s very picky about exposure settings. But the results it provides are incredible. My favorite part is how much it richens up blues.