As I said on the previous page, Ektachrome is a colour reversal film meaning your photos don’t come out as a negative, they instead come out as a positive, hence the “reversal” But what is Colour Reversal Film and what is it’s pros and cons? One is it’s positive film result, meaning after development the film is presented to you as it was when taking the photo. But when shooting films like Kodak Gold or Portra, your film is presented as a yellow-brownish inverted image, that you would then need to be scanned and then colour balanced and inverted in post-production

Having the perk of being able to see its “true” colour after development has a few disadvantages compared to colour negative film, and they are:

• One is a lower effective dynamic range. What do I mean by “effective dynamic range” you ask? Well If I was underexposing a photo with something like Kodak Gold 200 by 3 stops, I can easily save that photo from being an underexposed mess, and it’s the same way with overexposing. What I am trying to say is you really don’t want to incorrectly expose color reversal film, as it doesn’t have a lot of range to save an image from being too dark or too bright.

• Second, being availability, there are only around 3 different choices of film to go for, there is Ektachrome E100 from Kodak, and there’s FujiFilm’s Provia and Velvia films. So as well as being hard to find it is also expensive, ranging from $25 to $35, and that’s before you consider development costs

• Third, being Development, Ektachrome and any colour reversal film requires E6. C41 Development is a 5-step process, but E6 is an 11-step process that is with is way more expensive to deal with, in most scenarios, it’s best to take colour reversal film to a professional lab. But not all do E6, I am super lucky to have one lab in Perth that can do it, and that’s the people at Silver Halide Studios

Now colour reversal film has multiple names that it goes by, there is Colour Reversal Film and then there is Colour Positive Film. But what it is most commonly referred to as is “Slide Film”. This is because it can be used in projectors as slides, this is due to the fact that you don’t get a negative and instead get a positive.

Anyways, I hope you like this explanation, I would love to go into the technical stuff like the data sheet but that sounds like a snore hahaha.