Kodak Ektachrome E100G Colour Slide Film ISO 100 35 mm 36 Exposures Transparent

Be awareThis is not as labelled or imaged.This is not the original E100G, but the newer E100.

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Vim seems fine but there is no mailing bag in the box to return it for processing it.

First of all - what's good about this rare Kodak E6?Well - grain is very fine. The fact that it is exists at all in a world dominated by digital is a small miracle. And...…….well that's just about it for me.I appreciate that many others will welcome more choice when it comes to E6 in the context of the very limited amount of stock that is available these days. E100 is not Velvia 50 or 100; nor is it Provia 100 for that matter.On the light table, E100 for me is very lack-lustre. In fact I'd call it dull. Those of you who like subdued colours will love it - but not me. It is even worse in dull lighting conditions and warming filters don't seem to make it any better - I'd say that the dominant tone is blue, rendering a very cool look. This colour bias might have some technical applications. If you read the data sheet, it comes across as neutrally toned.I bought my E100 when it was cheaper - but I was expecting it to be bolder because this film was eagerly awaited. It is not. It is too subtle - not for me - but I have to say that whites are really white but they were really white with 100VS and EC too.A work round however comes in the form of a Cokin Blue/Yellow polariser. Attach one of these babies to your lens on sunny day gets much nicer results - E100 starts to look like my past favourite Kodak stock 100VS/Extra Colour or E100Plus. The difference that filter makes could not be more stark.To be fair though, I understand that E100's technical design is so that it can be digitised/scanned in and therefore manipulated pictorially afterwards on a computer. This makes sense to me because I was going to say that the film lacked personality. Upon further thought, I thought that was unfair - it obviously does have a personality - a look, but for me a rather muted one - but it is maybe designed to interact with digital - to be compatible with that platform before anything else. Maybe you can boost the colour when it is digitised and retain the detail, without blocking out (which to be fair is what sometimes happens to Velvia 50).So this makes E100 a very non-traditional film for someone like me who likes vibrant colour. I'm not stating I wouldn't use it again because I have a work around (see above) and if the price were right I could use it. The colours it delivers out of the box so to speak aren't what I am after which is what you get with the Velvias.E100 is maybe a technically excellent modern film - but in being so it loses something and you need to understand it and make it work for you in ways in which other E6 films do not.The real pleasure of E6 is what it looks like on the lightbox; E100 may be more at home on a computer monitor and you need to take that into consideration if you are buying.