Kodak E100 Professional ISO 100 35mm 36 Exposures, Color Transparency Film

KODAK EKTACHROME E100 IMAGE QUALITIES
When shot well, slide film like Ektachrome E100 should give results that colour negative films would struggle to replicate.

I’m not going to say it gives you better images because that’s a subjective thing. But if the things this film does well are things you like to see in a photograph, you’re probably going to be very impressed with it indeed.

I see people talk about the colours you get from Ektachrome E100. About how they’re rich and bright. And also the contrast, sharpness, and fine grain brought about by Kodak’s T-grain emulsion technology.

That all sounds like things you can get with various colour negative films too, though. For me, with my limited experience of shooting it, what sets slide film apart is what I think comes from the sum of all the parts mentioned above.

In a word, there’s just a lot more depth than I’ve gotten before from even the best colour negative films I’ve shot like Portra 400 or Ektar 100.



It may not look much being held up there by my pasty white hand, but that dog-eared cardboard box with a wonkily-placed cartridge on top of it is one of the best things to happen to analogue photography in the last few years.

There are quite a few reasons why the new Kodak Ektachrome E100 should make anyone who shoots film smile, and only one of them is that its packaging has the best colour scheme possible.

Be aware though that nothing good in life comes easy, and getting good results from this film requires a little more care and exactness than the Golds and Ultramaxes of the world ask of you.

Read on as this Kodak Ektachrome E100 review explains all of the above, with some examples of how things look when they go well and also when they don’t. If it makes you want to pick some up and try it for yourself, you can from from B&H Photo

Back in 1935, Kodak introduced one of the first successful colour photo films. Going by the name Kodachrome, this early transparency (or slide, or reversal) film proved highly popular and endured for decades until finally being discontinued in 2009.

Unlike other films that met the same fate in recent times though, its demise wasn’t prompted by the rise of digital cameras. The writing was on the wall long before that thanks to its complicated and outdated processing method that could only really be done by trained technicians.

Newer slide films like the Fujichrome range and Kodak’s own Ektachromes used a quicker and easier method that most people with a home darkroom could do too. It began as the E-1 process in 1946 and has been updated five times now to the current E-6 we have today.

In case you’re wondering, a transparency or reversal or slide film is a film that gives you full colour slides – hence that name – instead of the negatives you get from regular colour or monochrome negative film. Once you’ve shot your slide film, these are brilliant things to have and to look at.