Eastman Kodak has now added Ektachrome 100 slide film to the list of films now distributed in house.
It is the third of the company’s Professional line of films to be added to its stable.
Last month, Ektar 100 colour negative film and Tri-X black-and-white film became the first of the film producers’ own line-up of films.
It followed the surprise announcement of Kodacolor 100 and 200 films in October last year, followed by Gold 200 and Ultramax 400 a few weeks later.
The films had been exclusively distributed by Kodak Alaris since 2013, after Eastman Kodak had narrowly avoided going bankrupt.
Ektachrome, which was brought back from the dead by Eastman Kodak in 2017 following the axing of its last slide films five years earlier, has been added in both 35mm and 120.
It is the only colour slide film currently in production apart from Fujifilm’s Provia and Velvia emulsions.
Eastman Kodak said in the new listing: “The film features extremely fine grain, accurate color reproduction, moderately enhanced saturation, and is optimized for scanning.
“Its’ neutral tonal scale produces pleasing natural skin tones and consistent gray scale rendition as well as maintaining good shadow and highlight detail.”
The film is being offered in boxes featuring a similar yellow-dominant retro colour scheme to the rest of the films which have come back into Eastman Kodak distribution.
This now leaves only the Portra colour negative films and Kodak’s TMax family left in Kodak Alaris’s catalogue.
Kodacolor 200 is a renamed version of ColorPlus 200 film, while Kodacolor 100 is widely believed to be based off Pro Image 100, a film initially made for the consumer market in Asia and Latin America.
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It sure feels like this has secured E100’s future for a good while. I’ll take it.
Can’t help but agree!