I frequently shoot Ektar in several formats, esp 8x10, and consider it a marvelous product
once you understand it. Don't mistake it for either a chrome or something like a traditional
color neg film. I've posted numerous times about it on a couple of forums. You need to
filter for significant color balance errors, esp cold overcast or blue shadows. And except for
filter factor corrections per se, I shoot at box speed. If you can routinely expose tranny
film correctly, Ektar is easy. But don't expect a whole lot of spare latitude like with a neg
portrait film. Maybe one extra stop each side compared to general chrome films, and way
more than Velvia, which is a bad comparison anyway. For general experimentation I like to
shoot 120 film because it scans way better than 35mm (at least at an economical level for
general previewing), or gives a little bigger contact print. Of course, there's nothing like
printing from actual 8X10's (I do it optically on Crystal Archive II), but you can only select
a limited number of images for big print work.
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