Eastman Kodak has announced the release of two new families of films – the Ektacolor Pro colour negative films and Ektapan black-and-white negative films.
The films appear to be new branding for the Portra family of professional colour films and the TMax series of black-and-white films.
The films were announced by Eastman Kodak on Tuesday (24 March) and appear to be the latest films to fall back into distribution by Eastman Kodak after more than a decade being sold by Kodak Alaris.
It said: “Kodak Ektacolor P30 160, 400, and 800 daylight-balanced color negative films are designed for exceptional results. The films offer a remarkably natural color palette and render flattering skin tones making them an ideal choice among wedding, portrait, and commercial photographers. The films’ fine grain ensures crisp, detailed images.”
The three different ISOs of the Ektacolor Pro films – 160, 400 and 800 – match exactly those of the Portra range, Kodak’s professional colour negative films widely used by fashion and wedding photographers.
The three Ektapan films, meanwhile, also match the ISOs of the TMax films – 100, 400 and 3200.
Eastman Kodak said of the Ektapan range: “The Kodak Ektapan family of continuous-tone panchromatic black-and-white negative films are available in ISO 100, 400, and P3200 – offering exceptional image quality for detailed subjects. The Ektapan family’s wide latitude allows for push and pull processing with good results. Its ability to handle a high degree of enlargement ensures that even the most intricate details are preserved.”
All the new films share the new yellow, red and black Eastman Kodak packaging.
These films are the final Kodak stills emulsions to move from distribution from Kodak Alaris to Eastman Kodak, which began late last year with the release of Kodacolor 100 and 200, widely believed to be the old Kodak Pro Image 100 and ColorPlus 200 films.
All of the other Kodak still films – including Tri-X black-and-white film and Ektachrome colour slide – also moved to Eastman Kodak’s distribution over the following months.
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