Kodak Ektar 25 was a professional low ISO colour negative film first released in 1989. This film was already discontinued in 1994 and that probably makes it one of the oldest films I had a look at here.
Processing (C-41) and scanning was done at urbanfilmlab in Germany, the pictures in this article are from one roll of film. I also took into account it expired some time ago and chose ISO12.
This film most likely expired 30 years before I exposed it and with such films you never know what to expect. Considering that, the results from this film look surprisingly good: low grain, contrasty, mostly pleasing colors – I did not expect that.
Of today’s few films still in production Ektar 100 is one of my favorites, guess I would have also liked this slower one back in the day.
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ohh, the colors are exakt mine.
love it.
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Surprisingly good results for such an old film! I used it a bit when I was student and my recollection is that colours were already a bit towards magenta. Reading that it was already discontinued in ’94 did not make me feel any younger 😉
Sorry for that 🙂
Really pleasing colors and sharp, one of the ones I want them to bring back.
Very nice results! i like the colours, they suit this summer-like light (light that is very needed in this case).
Intriguing lens too. 🙂
Nice picture from….Greece! Corfu?
Yes, correct.