{"id":32886,"date":"2018-09-17T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=32886"},"modified":"2018-09-15T10:21:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T17:21:42","slug":"ektar-watch-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2018\/09\/17\/ektar-watch-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Ektar!  Watch out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A color brute.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I made mention of Kodak&#8217;s Ektar 100 film <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2018\/06\/15\/kodak-ektar-film\/ target=_blank>here<\/a> when I first started messing about with film after a decades long hiatus spent genuflecting to the digital god.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an easy film to use.  The contrast is brutally high and even a smidgeon of over-exposure means highlights will blow out and there is no way the limitations of the film medium will permit their recovery in post-processing.<\/p>\n<p>So I have learned to set the Nikon F100 to -0.3 stops exposure correction using the +\/- control and expect that for the next roll I will migrate to -0.7 stops, meaning I am rating Extar at 160 ASA and recovering detail thus in Lightroom:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Ektar_LR.jpg\" width=\"318\" height=\"344\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an image snapped in Prescott AZ the other day &#8211; any hint of over-exposure would have blown that roof out:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Prescott_roof.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"677\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sure, the sky came out darker than it really was, but Extar is about drama, not realism.  I get enough of the latter from the NYT daily, and it&#8217;s not a pretty picture.<\/p>\n<p>Nikon F100, 24-120mm AFD Nikkor, Kodak Ektar 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A color brute. I made mention of Kodak&#8217;s Ektar 100 film here when I first started messing about with film after a decades long hiatus spent genuflecting to the digital god. This is not an easy film to use. The contrast is brutally high and even a smidgeon of over-exposure means highlights will blow out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2018\/09\/17\/ektar-watch-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ektar!  Watch out.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32889,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32886\/revisions\/32889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}