Kodak Professional Ektar Color Negative Film ISO 100, 120 Size, Propack of 5, *USA*

If you love saturated colors, you'll love this film! Skin tones will likely be off though, so beware. This film has high resolution, works great in the darkroom as well as scanning digitally, and is easy to develop. If you can't/don't do slide film, but want to try to get close to the color saturation, this is your best bet. If you're working in unnatural light, this film still looks great with filters. I've used it in tungsten lighting with an 80A filter and all was well! Speaking of filters, with this film I've used Beseler color filter packs in a condenser enlarger and they've worked great so far with Ektar! I've also used color filter dichroic heads and those are always fine with it. With the results, you can even still use Kodak's image viewing filters for color prints to help you determine your filter pack if you haven't done color work for long. I recommend Fuji or Colortone papers. I first printed this film with Mitsubishi speed paper with good results. Fuji paper is so thin, it makes me sad, but Ektar likes it well enough!The base is thick enough to lay flat when loading in the enlarger and can even be pushed, but I haven't tried pulling. Overall, I recommend this film. Even if you just pick up a roll to try, it's worth a shot. After all, a photographer should know his options.For people, I recommend Fuji Pro or Kodak Portra, for beautiful and highest quality portrait, general studio set and landscape results I recommend Fuji Provia 100/ Velvia 50 slide films. E6 is easy to do at home with a kit.

This is a really great film that has had a bad reputation for rendering bad skin tones foisted upon it by people who base their claims on cheap minilab scans rather than scans from a pro lab. Ektar gives great colors that jump off the paper when you print it, and its very sharp and contrasty. I've even taken some lovely portraits with this film, even though the blow-hards on internet forums like to pan it, claiming it makes skin look overly red. As with any high contrast film though, the photographer needs to make sure the light they are shooting in is good and not overly contrasty or harsh. Ektar can make colors pop and show the world in surreal beauty, but it cant fix bad lighting or an overly wide dynamic range in a scene. With that caveat in mind, shots made with this film in the morning and evening hours or in open shade will have great color, very very little grain, and if the photographer does their part to keep things sharp, the film will not let them down. If anyone from Kodak should read this short review: Please find a way to make this film in high speed flavors as well! An ultra-saturated, ultra-sharp and ultra-contrast slow version would be welcome too.

I've been shooting a lot of Ektar lately, and am really loving the look: Awesome, punchy colors, great saturation, and it scans a dream. This stuff really is remarkable. This is the kind of film that makes you forget about digital.If you are even thinking about it, go for it. Go get yourself a cheap, used camera. Buy a few boxes of Ektar, and have at it. You'll get results that are unmatched by anything out there.Quick tip on shooting it, particularly for the digital shooters: Shoot this stuff exactly opposite of how you would shoot digital. With digital, you are always worried about blowing out highlights, so you want to err on the side of under-exposing. With Ektar, go ahead and over-expose. Even with a full stop of over-exposure, you'll get good highlight detail. Modern digital sensors like to talk about having 12 or more stops of "dynamic range", but what that misses is once they get to the maximum, they clip. Film handles highlights so much better. Throw some light on this film and it will reward you!

Great stock.

Back in The Day, I shot hundreds of rolls of VPS III - the purported "ASA 160" film you had to shoot at ASA 100 to get it to come out right. Like everyone else, I developed a love-hate relationship with it - loved how the work looked, hated that you had to keep it in the fridge and overexpose it by two-thirds of a stop.Now we have Ektar 100. A great film - probably the best we've ever had. The grain is imperceptible even at high magnification; I have a very good scanner and can't see grain in an 800-percent enlargement. Color's fantastic, and - drum roll please! - you can store it at room temperature!This is available in 120 and 35mm formats. It's great either way.

Arrived early, great price n NOT expired...packaging was fantastic

Got this film for a Yashica-A film camera. I am completely new to 120mm film, I have been taking 35 mm for years. The one thing that I did not know what to expect is how much film you need to wind before you see the first framed. With the Yashica-A I have a red window that shows me where the film is. As for the types of shots I took, it was a mix between cloudy and sunny weather. Also, took a double exposure with this film, that negative turned out great.After I finished the roll of film I took it to my local camera store to have it developed. The photos turned out superb, I am impressed with the amount of detail in this type of film and the wonderful colors it produces. (I scan my negatives into my computer as well.)I would highly recommend this type of film for anyone.

What is there to say? If you know this film you love it (if you know how to shoot it and your subject is suited to it) or don't (if otherwise.) It's less forgiving than most negative film and needs to be handled, at least in terms of color correction, more like transparency film. Shadows will tend to go blue without a warming filter because shadows ARE blue, and unlike portrait films Ektar isn't made to hide it. It does have the usual negative film vast overexposure latitude though. Just a wonderful, accurate, highly saturated film.Seller shipped promptly and item was as described.