This Is a comparison of Kodak Ektar 100 developed in its native C41 developer and motion picture developer ECN-2. The first Gallery includes photos taken with my Nikon D810. The Kodak Ektar 100 was shot on a Nikon FM and Nikon F3HP with 35mm lenses. All shots digital and film were shot at the same settings and metered with a Sekonic Twinmate l-208. All photos are not edited, the Film photos were converted with Negative Lab Pro. NLP settings: Source DSLR, Color model None, Pre Saturation 3 default, Tones linear + gamma and Color Kodak.
I was first exposed to ECN-2 by Matt Melcher on his podcast episodes DYI ECN and ECN-2 Follow up . Matt led me to James Harr’s website.I was truly amazed by the colors of the cross processing and just had to try myself. With Kodak Ektar 100 being my favorite color film it was a no brainer to try it. I used the formula and times from James’s experiences along with some other information I found from Kodak. I purchased four chemicals from Photographers Formulary (Listed bellow) for $76. The CD-3 was purchased from Artcraft Chemical for $25. The reminder was purchased at Walmart.
You will notice a color shift between the developers. Oddly some scenes look better in ECN-2 then the native C41, others do not. This brief experiment suggests that for some scenes that ECN-2 works well with Ektar 100 but is not a perfect substitute for C41 processing. Further experiments are needed. Over all I’m not disappointed, a few images in ECN-2 are actually Truer to color and give a nice look.
It will be interesting to see how the vision 3 films (50D, 250D and 500T) compare in C41. In the future I have plans to conduct the same experiments with Kodak Portra (160, 400 or 800), Kodak Kodacolor 200 (Color Plus 200) and Kodak Pro image 100. Maybe others. With winter here I don’t plan on starting those experiments until spring with the possible exception of the Vision 3 500T.
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Greg Parker Photography 
