Kodak Ektachrome E100 is a color reversal film that was first introduced in the 35mm format in 2019. It is known for having a very natural color palette that produces very true-to-life colors. It also has very fine grain and excellent sharpness. The film is pretty forgiving for a slide film; it is able to hold detail in exposures that have been underexposed by as much as a full stop.
Sample images made on Kodak Ektachrome E100 with a Minolta X-370 by staff member, Zeb Andrews.
Kodak Ektachrome E100
In 2018, Kodak finally released Ektachrome 100 and we could barely keep it on our shelves.
What we have seen developing this film has looked great. It is a fair counterpart to Fuji's Provia film but perhaps with not quite as much saturation (and certainly less saturated than Velvia). It does a wonderful job of producing true-to-life images that look magical backlit on a light box. An even better option is projection. Keep in mind, we often have Kodak slide projectors in our inventory. If you have never had a projector party, you ought to give it some serious thought. Many would argue that this was the way that slides were intended to be experienced; projected on a screen in a dim living room with friends and family 'ooohing' and 'aaahing' at the images, only a single step removed from reality. But... we get ahead of ourselves, first you need to come get some of this film. Then we can worry about everything else.⠀
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Kodak E100 In Stock
For a while there, Ektachrome had been a tricky film to keep in stock. Several factors were playing into this, especially the extremely high demand for this once-new film, not to mention the hit-and-miss supply from Kodak, as they tried to keep up with that demand.
We have been processing E-6 for a several years now and, when we started, we figured it would be a service we would offer for a short while until Fuji got around to discontinuing Velvia and Provia - this was right after they had axed Astia and Provia 400... But look at things now! Not only has Fuji continued with production of their slide films but now we have a chrome film from Kodak again as well! Our E-6 machines are quite happy.
As a tangential side note, we recently just color processed our first roll of E-4 (the 1970s era precursor to modern E-6 film). We processed the film in C-22 chemistry, rendering the film into negatives instead of positives, but it worked well. We have done some experimental processing of older emulsions and, maybe one of these days, we'll cook up a modified E-6 run to try positive processing some of that old E-4 film.