As already pointed out: in 2025 no one makes slide film faster than ISO100 anymore. And no one makes slide film to shoot under artifical light (“Tungsten based”) anymore either. That wasn’t always the case and from 1992 to 2003 Kodak offered this Ektachrome 320T, a higher speed tungsten based slide film. These have all long expired, but thanks to our readers I got my hands on a roll. Let’s see what we can do with it.
Processing (E-6) was done at ProLab in Stuttgart, scanning was done by one of our readers via a DSLR. The pictures you see in this article are from one roll.
The first thing I noticed after picking up the developed film: this film is very blue, even when shot under artificial light, and contrast also seems to have taken a hit due to its age. This is what the scans looked like before any adjustments in post:
All the pictures in this article have been optimized in post for white balance to give more realistic colors.
I was shooting the complete roll during the blue hour and for these scenes the dynamic range of this expired slide film certainly left something to be desired: the highlights are blown out and the shadows lack any detail – a clear sign of insufficient dynamic range of the film. Maybe a fresh roll would have had a slightly better dynamic range, but this is still far from what we can achieve with today’s digital cameras in a single exposure.
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