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Old September 10th 08, 01:19 AM posted to rec.photo.darkroom
John J
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Default A new film from Kodak.

Keith Tapscott. wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/6coc29


high saturation and ultra-vivid colour,


Interesting. So Kodak has made a competitor to the Japanese "high
saturation and ultra-vivid color" film, such as Velvia.

So Kodak is still playing the film market. I wish them the best of luck.
It could be good for the rest of us. I won't be buying any unless they
offer it in formats larger than 35mm, but I am a happy minority.

Thanks for the link!
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Old September 10th 08, 01:28 AM posted to rec.photo.darkroom
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Default A new film from Kodak.


"John J" wrote in message
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Keith Tapscott. wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/6coc29


high saturation and ultra-vivid colour,


Interesting. So Kodak has made a competitor to the
Japanese "high saturation and ultra-vivid color" film,
such as Velvia.

So Kodak is still playing the film market. I wish them the
best of luck. It could be good for the rest of us. I won't
be buying any unless they offer it in formats larger than
35mm, but I am a happy minority.

Thanks for the link!


It seems to me that Kodak made a film something like
this in the past but I can't remember what it was called.
This is not an oblique reference to Kodachrome but to
another product.
Whether it will be available in sizes other than 35mm
depends on what Kodak's market research shows the potential
market to be.
I agree that the fact that they are sill making new
products for the film market is a hopeful sign. Perhaps the
digital inroad on film has reached its limit.


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Old September 10th 08, 01:53 AM
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Default A new film from Kodak.

http://www.photographyblog.com/index...ktar_100_film/
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Old September 10th 08, 01:53 AM posted to rec.photo.darkroom
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Default A new film from Kodak.

Richard Knoppow wrote:

"John J" wrote in message
m...
Keith Tapscott. wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/6coc29
high saturation and ultra-vivid colour,

Interesting. So Kodak has made a competitor to the
Japanese "high saturation and ultra-vivid color" film,
such as Velvia.

So Kodak is still playing the film market. I wish them the
best of luck. It could be good for the rest of us. I won't
be buying any unless they offer it in formats larger than
35mm, but I am a happy minority.

Thanks for the link!


It seems to me that Kodak made a film something like
this in the past but I can't remember what it was called.
This is not an oblique reference to Kodachrome but to
another product.
Whether it will be available in sizes other than 35mm
depends on what Kodak's market research shows the potential
market to be.
I agree that the fact that they are sill making new
products for the film market is a hopeful sign. Perhaps the
digital inroad on film has reached its limit.


They did; it was Kodak Ektar 25, only in 35mm. I asked their salesman at a
photo show when they would be making the stuff in 4x5 hand he said never. He
said that Vericolor whatever was sharp enough for that.

I assume that Ektar 100 is just the color version of TMax 100, but who knows?

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Old September 10th 08, 05:59 AM posted to rec.photo.darkroom
Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Default A new film from Kodak.

Jean-David Beyer wrote:
They did; it was Kodak Ektar 25, only in 35mm. I asked their salesman at a
photo show when they would be making the stuff in 4x5 hand he said never. He
said that Vericolor whatever was sharp enough for that.


IMHO Ektar 25mm was the best color film ever made. The results were as
good as Kodachrome and by the time it came out Kodachrome had to be
"sent away" for processing, while any one hour lab could process Ektar 25.

Kodak claimed that the technology behind Ektar 25 was incorporated into
their later ISO 100 color negative film and has found its way into all
of their current offerings. It may be so, but none of them had the "look".

Even in 35mm Ektar 25 never sold enough to a viable product, which is why
it never made it to larger formats.

Wasn't there also an Ektar 100? I seem to remember it existed, but did not
look as good.

Geoff.

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Old September 10th 08, 01:26 PM posted to rec.photo.darkroom
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Default A new film from Kodak.

Jean-David Beyer wrote:

They did; it was Kodak Ektar 25, only in 35mm. I asked their salesman at
a photo show when they would be making the stuff in 4x5 hand he said
never. He said that Vericolor whatever was sharp enough for that.


I am confused. I thought Vericolor sheet film was discontinued.

I have a box of some Vericolor once used to make transparencies of
negatives. It's so out of date I wonder why I let it take space in the
deep freeze.

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Old September 10th 08, 01:39 PM posted to rec.photo.darkroom
Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Default A new film from Kodak.

John J wrote:
Jean-David Beyer wrote:

They did; it was Kodak Ektar 25, only in 35mm. I asked their salesman at
a photo show when they would be making the stuff in 4x5 hand he said
never. He said that Vericolor whatever was sharp enough for that.


I am confused. I thought Vericolor sheet film was discontinued.

I have a box of some Vericolor once used to make transparencies of
negatives. It's so out of date I wonder why I let it take space in the
deep freeze.


I think he was referring to Ektar 25 when it was first made, in the late
1980's.

Further web searching turned up that Ektar was made in 25, a 100 (100 or 125),
and 1000. At least the 25 was available in 35mm, 120, and to "a few" 4x5.

This was from a discussion in 2005 on web forum, anyone have any hard facts?

Geoff.

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Old September 10th 08, 03:21 PM posted to rec.photo.darkroom
Malcolm Lee
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Default A new film from Kodak.

On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:28:49 -0700, Richard Knoppow wrote:

"John J" wrote in message
m...
Keith Tapscott. wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/6coc29


high saturation and ultra-vivid colour,


Interesting. So Kodak has made a competitor to the Japanese "high
saturation and ultra-vivid color" film, such as Velvia.

So Kodak is still playing the film market. I wish them the best of
luck. It could be good for the rest of us. I won't be buying any unless
they offer it in formats larger than 35mm, but I am a happy minority.

Thanks for the link!


It seems to me that Kodak made a film something like
this in the past but I can't remember what it was called. This is not an
oblique reference to Kodachrome but to another product.
Whether it will be available in sizes other than 35mm
depends on what Kodak's market research shows the potential market to
be.
I agree that the fact that they are sill making new
products for the film market is a hopeful sign. Perhaps the digital
inroad on film has reached its limit.


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Portra 160 VC Prof ??

(There was also Ektachrome E100VS Prof for transparencies).

Malcolm
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Old September 10th 08, 04:33 PM posted to rec.photo.darkroom
Jean-David Beyer
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Default A new film from Kodak.

John J wrote:
Jean-David Beyer wrote:

They did; it was Kodak Ektar 25, only in 35mm. I asked their salesman at
a photo show when they would be making the stuff in 4x5 hand he said
never. He said that Vericolor whatever was sharp enough for that.


I am confused. I thought Vericolor sheet film was discontinued.


No doubt, but not when Ektar 25 was introduced.

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Old September 11th 08, 01:50 AM posted to rec.photo.darkroom
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Default A new film from Kodak.

In article ,
Keith Tapscott. wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/6coc29


Ektar was a name Kodak used for CN film back in the 1980's it was a very
nice saturated color negative film. Not over the top saturated.

I guess they decided to reuse the name.

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