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The music in this ep is what I inagine your inner monologue sounds like when trying to pick a camera or film to shoot.

Ektar pushed is something I have never heard. Wow. I also have been slacking. I say Ektar is one of my favorites and I havnt shot a roll in 120 yet and a 35mm in 2 years. Oops. Okay, I like Pushed better after those first couple shots. The grain seems to be very fine even pushed, im shocked tbh. The addition of blue is shocking and or interesting, wouldnlt expect that. Good day sir

I saw the Mapplethorpe retrospective when it was held at the Ghetty in 2013. It changed my life. The pictures, when seen in person, really made you look. His roses were technically perfect, never seen such a beautiful print since. They had a large silver-gelatin print of Diane Arbus's Twins. They had William Eggleston's original Tricycle print that used dye transfer to make the print, it looked like a water color, floating just above the paper. I walked out of the exhibit for golden hour and I was the saddest person on the tram because I did not have a camera to catch the sun setting behind downtown LA. I picked up my film cameras after that, it seemed like the right thing to do. Pushing Ektar reminds me of that Eggelston. I've also taken to pushing everything one stop because I like darker shadows.

I like the airy look that the box speed supplies but that contrast on the +3 is also Crispyyy. Well done my friend!

I've pushed it here and there, and enjoy seeing the real world examples! I'll *probably* stick to box speed, but Ektar is definitely one of my favorites, and I like that this is proof it's more versatile than people say it is.

First time I saw Ektar pushed this far... The pushed tones are amazing 🤩 the deep tones you got out of those blues and greens are incredible ✨ Guess I'll have to push some ektar myself too... Nice video, congrats 👏

Great video dude! Ektar doesn’t get enough love. It’s one of my favorites. I like the box speed results too much to push it but I’m glad to know it holds up if I ever forget to change the settings on my light meter lol

Glad to hear some Ektar love, it's great film. 2 stops is a bit much but it worked well with some of the flatter scenes. It's fun watching you have fun experimenting with film, thanks for another great video!

Loved this. I was an architecture student in California and visited Getty centre a few times and took a bunch of shots. This was when it just opened in 98. I love ektar, printing on enlarger I find it very difficult focusing on grain with my mamiya 7

How cool, good to know it's pushable with good results

Nicely done. Props to Lauren for taking quality video and being ever so patient while doing so. Truly the unsung hero of these videos. Dig the videos. After I get more experience in with my pentax and nikon 35mm cameras, I plan on getting the Pentax 645 or Mamiya 645. Good to see you're getting some time in with the Mamiya after the Pentax took a 💩

the music is everything

Great video and excellent point on the grain!

That push looks great. I’d never thought to do that with Ektar. 😮 Thanks for making this video. 🙌

Another awesome upload. Nicely done.

I may push Ektar like this on my pinhole photos. Since pinhole shots are more like paintings than photos, you want saturation and really blue skies. I’ll try that out with and without a polarizer

Love the cauliflower photo pushed. Had this eerie, motel room lighting vibe that was really unique. Might have to try.

I have to agree with you on that Caleb! Shooting portraits on Ektar 100 Is great! Cheaper than Portra and has great color tones that just work in my work flow. Not sure about pushing it to ASA 800 but definitely shoot it a box speed for better results. Great looking location shoot though!

It seems like ektar has enough shadow detail at box speed that pushing it 3 stops doesnt really degrade the image. I prefer the pushed negative since it has a cinematic vibe to it where shadow-midtone of the image has punchy saturation. Love the episode!

I dig the contrast. I has a very movie film look to it pushed to 800.

This is content I love Great job 👍

Nice one!! Loved it! I haven't shot Ektar in ages!! brings it all back! Thanks!!

Hey Caleb. Great episode. I have been reluctant to push Ektar 100. Pushing it at Golden hour with no or little shadows looks great.

1:44 Whaaaaaat! I love the pushed image, I thought this was just going to be a waste of $10 of film but I want to try it now. Maybe dialing it back to 2 stops if it low golden hour light, but I like what it does for stronger mid-day light.

I pushed two rolls of Ektar to ISO400 and both of them came out great. Love the colourshifts.

Wow, I had never seen someone push Ektar before but it ROCKS!!!! I'm off to see if I can find it in 120 format!!! Thanks for the cool video!!!!

I always found it interesting, that you and Jason (Jason even more so haha) dissed Ektar and I couldn't get my head around it why.. I loved the outcome from both of you and even my own go at it in Greece. Great job on those pics. Box wins for me overall. 🤔 Considering it's a 100 iso film, it totally slaps everything else in beauty while shot at all around sunny and white/blue-ish place (like Greece.. Or the Getty), so great choice of location, Caleb, haha.

yup , like it pushed , looks good

Kodak Ektar is THE landscape film, Addictive! Makes postcards fly out the back of my cameras. My Canon L1 rangefinder wants Ektar!

Hey there Caleb. I will be purchasing my first rolls of 120 film soon. I caved to my desire and used some of my Christmas bonus to pick up a bargain priced Pentax 645. Your results are swaying me towards Ektar. I will probably only shoot a couple rolls a year so a 5 pack will last me a while. I am debating between the Fuji Pro 400H, Ektar and the Portra 160. I was very happy with the less grainy 35mm Fuji Superia 400 compared to Kodak Gold and Kodak Portra 400. I heard a rumor that the new Fuji Pro 400H brought back in 2021-2022 is rebranded Portra 400. Thanks

Awesome episode, didn't know ektar can be pushed 3 stops. I have had great expereince with 35mm, just ordered few 120s now.

love ektar but never thought about pushing this film :)

Groovy vibes!

Loving the Dutch angle while in the gallery, very artistic, and definitely not trying to do some sneaky filming, haha

I do aircraft photography with a macro lens on Ektar 100 and the extra blue that the pushing introduces I think pushed me over the edge to try this. My next shoot I do at the airfield will definitely be pushed at least 2 stops.

Fun vid. I like the look of the pushed but maybe 2 stops max. Out in the desert, box speed.

Ektar is amazing! You get the saturation of slide film with the latitude of negative films like Portra!

yeah agree i prefer the box speed results mostly. i preferred the pushed cauliflower photo tho :)

Caleb, I just bought a 55-110mm f/4.5 lens for my M645. I wanted it mostly for the wide end of the zoom range, because I wasn't willing to spend $250-300 for a 55mm f/2.8. Coupled with my 80mm f/2.8 and my 150mm f/3.5, I think I have a wonderful 3-lens kit for 6x4.5. FWIW, the 55-110mm lens cost $125, which includes $30 for shipping.

Okay, I'm definitely doing that. I've got some 120 ektar kicking around. Might just stop with a +2, since my TLR doesn't have that fast of a shutter

I prefer the pushed photos, they seem to have more contrast.

I love Ektar to death and I too have heard repeatedly that it's not good for portraits. I think the channel Pushing Film has a really good video on why Ektar is his favorite film stock and he makes a really good point that in his experience when you shoot people with fairer/lighter skin Ektar can render them as reddish but when you shoot people with darker skin tones it makes it look even better. He posits a theory that this red shift on whiter skin is why Portra had been preferred for portraits and Ektar ended up getting a bad rap. I've confirmed this myself with photos of friends and I still prefer Ektar over Portra due to the contrast and color saturation.

Seem to have a like slide filmism look when pushed. I like the look, but wouldn't push it either though. Overexpising Ektar by 1 stop (and 2) at box speed is something I'm trying out right now. I noticed before Ektar seems to get a bit of a warm creamy tone to it when overexposed, but I'll hope to figure out soon how that works out.

Pushing Ektar to 3200 sounds like something the madlad Attic Darkroom would do.

A bit of info that you may also be interested in is that Ektar does not have reciprocity failure upto 10 seconds. I know the Kodak data sheet doesn't commit to this but like Ektachrome (the hint is in the name). Myth that i have heard and only seen on a reciprocity failure calculator ...... so if your feeling dangerous ... just sayin

I have pushed Ektar as much as 3 stops with good results even at night. You will lose a fair bit of shadow detail as your video shows but overall still get good usable results.

I am liking consumer grade more than chrome and E6 film, so what about factoring on polar or ND lens and pulling, on 100 , I dont think I could shoot at compensating 3 min at 5 iso. Does Skylight filter remove blue tones on Ektar....Thanks

I find Ektar to be a really great film. If shot in medium format like 6x6 or 6x9 its truly amazing. With all the different channels discussing analoge film, I would like to offer a good way of showing the real potential of different films. Instead of scanning the negatives and process them digitally you process them as they should be processed. Make a real photo print in A4 size, or close. Then scan the photo in a really good scanner. That way its more close to what the film actually can offer, in terms of grain and contrast. Films are made to be printed in a lab on real paper. If you try this way you will get results that are better.

This car crash joke took me of guard😂

I do like the less washed out colors. I'd not go three stops... but one or two? perhaps

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What I personally see from your pictures is, that all box speed pictures seem to be slightly overexposed ( maybe about one stop ), while the pushed film looks very accurately exposed to me. That’s kind of interesting. Maybe an issue of your exposure meter from the camera ? But anyway … great experiment !!! Never expected the pushed pictures look so awesome. So, why still buy 800 ISO film ?

Nice episode! Hey, unrelated but in the grainydays chocolate filter video I saw you using a pixi flash, do you care to do a review of it? I have the same one but don't use it often because I fear I might mess up my exposures with film. Thanks!

And here I thought you were gonna push it into a trash can. Ektar is definitely overhated, looks great in pushed

I think I personally prefer this film at box speed, because of the warmer tones and less contrast. The pushed shots are starting to remind me of the times I pushed film too far or shot expired.

Hi! Totally noob with manual cameras... I am getting a OM 2n to try my hand at manual photo taking. Would you recommend a guide on how to choose film please? Does the number after the name (like ektar 100) = Iso sensitivity? Ie: use a 100 or 160 in bright light situations and a 400 or above in dark situations? (in which case : how do you select Iso on a manual camera if your Iso is kind of embedded in the film). Thank you!

In the really bright scenes the +3 Ektar looks really good to me. Love Ektar, especially outdoors in the spring.

For this situation, of course ektar is better option. Gold and ultramax mostly for city street

Get a Hasselblad. Once you experience Zeiss lenses…. You be hooked.

Where's Baxter? He's the only reason I come to this channel

Ive never pushed Ektar 3 stops but I dig it. Did you underexpose to compensate?

Box looks way better. I don't even know how you achieve those pastel colors on a freaking extar

Itmight be just me, but pushing it gives you almost that day-for-night cinema look.

I don't know if it's scanning settings or editing or film lab but your ektar colors (box speed) are vastly different from those of our boy Jason. His are way more blue/magenta, yours are on the portra side of things. For the record I prefer yours and my one roll ever ended somewhere in between the two of you (lab dev+scan+print)

Box looks way better. I don't even know how you achieve those pastel colors on a freaking EXTAR

Ektar pushed looks a lot like Velvia. This might be a backup plan if Fuji discontinues Velvia again... or if 50 ASA isn't fast enough.

Do you recommend pushing the film one stop?

I just posted a video that showed Ektar pushed 2 stops in-camera but developed at box. Saturation is insane.

Does changing the dial on the camera from 100 to 800 actually have any effect or does the change come from shooting with the settings you’d shoot with 800 film and then developing longer.

I just bought a roll of 35mm Ektar that's chillin' in the fridge. But since it's my first roll (and it's $19 w/shipping) I'll stick with box speed this time out.

I liked just the IDEA of Ektar when it first came out. Shot it some, never got results I didn't like. Never pushed it. I like your bravery. So the increased saturation is appealing, but the color shifts are not so much. I like what it did to the sky, but I am not a big fan of crushing shadows in color, at least when there is meaningful detail. And a color shift in the shadows is not welcome. So, can you take box exposures and do minimal editing to get the push results (or better) or is pushing a simple albeit more expensive path to the same thing? If you are stuck with Ektar in low light, can you push to get your images and then make easy compensations during edit to balance it out? Or is this something kids should not try at home?

Ektar to 3200! Let's goooo! I personally pushed it to 200.

How did you pushed by iso on a film camera? This value is only changes the light meter indicators accordingly.. you cannot Change the sensitivity of the physical film.. only by the exp compensation dial you are able to push.. that’s why the shots are same. You would have noticed bigger changes by pushing ektar by +3exp

Ektar flippin’ rules, and I’m tired of people(Jason)saying it doesn’t

I wonder how the +3 would look like in combination with an kr3/81ef Filter...

Nice sound track. I can't wait till I get a lens that works for Mamiya 645. What film stock should I lose my 120 virginity too

O fuck yea

*slide projector sounds* *is a print film*

This makes me think that there might be a real benefit to pushing it to 200-400 instead of all the way to 800

The pushed version looks very "digital" if you know what I mean.

You give my children nightmares

Kindof makes ektar look like ultramax (with finer grain, im sure)

Never tried Ektar myself

ektar looks best when overexposed 1 stop in my past experiences

Shoot it at 25 for portraits and be really impressed.

I think the moral of this story is that you need a second camera so you don't have to change backs like an animal.

I almost always push ektar. 1 or 2 stops is less extreme, but gives slightly better tone and contrast than box. However... pushing expired ektar goes downhill fast. Any heat damage to the film? makes it hella grainy and super dark with little detail except a pop where oranges and reds were. Kinda arthouse-y how some shots turn out when pushing 2 stops on expired ektar 100 in a heat soaked camera in summer.

you're funny

Eggtar

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completely unrelated but i had to watch a very erotic robert pattinson ad in the middle of this video

At first I thought I heard "the ghetto". Disappointed.😂

does the little "BF" in the bottom corner stand for "boyfriend"? are you my boyfriend?

I can do all of this in post without any degradation

Why are your box speed photos so flat and unsaturated? I would expect them to be punch, contrasty and highly saturated.

Thought you only dated Jason

Poor dude spent all his money on film and can't afford a new jean jacket...

Your photography needs a lot of refinement.

good video but i don´t like you humor