But if you do want those colours, sharpness, and world’s finest grain for everything else, and do your thing somewhere with ISO 100 friendly light levels, Ektar is more than worth a shot. Perhaps, when Kodak said “easy to scan,” they were referring to Ektar’s remarkably fine grain that makes certain images appear as if they were shot on a digital camera. But, how am I supposed to capture memories of my family and friends if their skin always looks like they’ve just finished applying their fourth layer of clown makeup?

As you can see, there is a clear difference in saturation levels and the image shot with Ektar 100 has an impressive color pop throughout the entire image. If you’re lucky enough to travel somewhere with enough sun for the ISO 100 rating and lots of colourful scenes to shoot, I could image Ektar being the perfect film for your trip.Everything I do and what I learn along the way gets shared on here, to inform and inspire you to get out and shoot as much - and as well - as you can too. Ektar will capture trickier scenes such as those with both bright sunlight and deep shadow without washing out the detail. With the sun in this position, it created high contrast between the dark shadows in front of Mount Rainier versus the bright highlights in the mid-day sky. The weather was very much the same over those few days: clear blue skies with only a very small hint of cloud if you looked really hard.

Though still not as expensive as some slide emulsions, it does not produce equivalent easy-to-scan positives . As well as the aforementioned finest, smoothest grain of any color negative film available today, it also promises to bring ultra-vivid color and exceptional sharpness. Hi Brendan, Portra 400 seems to work fine with 2-3 stops overexposure, and it gives me some margin not to underexpose. The shot of Shanghai Library in particular shows off the sharpness, especially in the windows on the right-hand side of the tower, and also that grain. Like any shore town, it’s a place loaded with heavy blues and varieties of light pastels, comfort colors.With that said, since Kodak Ektar 100 produces such beautiful colors, especially at golden hour, it’s worth trying at least once!