Back to the ol' 35mm camera. This time I shot the highly acclaimed Kodak Ektar 100 color film. I have read a lot of good things about this film and was expecting a lot. It did not disappoint. The images are sharp and colorful. The grain is very nice up close and from a distance the images appear sharp. I was also surprised to see how much information the negatives retained. I was able to pull a lot of the skies back down from overexposed.
My only regret so far, is that I could not have picked a worse day to shoot architecture. The sky was either completely overcast and therefore bland, or it was perfectly clear which did nothing to help the images. I did have a few that came back with some nice clouds and I was able to pull them in to proper light using Lightroom 4's new highlight/shadow algorithms. This thing does amazing stuff with images.
I will return to shooting film again in the future; however, it is quite expensive so I must take a break every now and then. Maybe I will try the 4x5 Toyoview next time.
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