No Ektar 100 at B&H or Adorama

I used to work a couple of blocks away from both B&H and Adorama and always went with Adorama because of the people that worked there, much more helpful than B&H. The fact that Helen has gone to the trouble of writing those emails while nothing from B&H proves it. As far as the holidays go, thats the stuff that makes New York such a great place. Its where the big boys play.

Ms Oster...

 

Although sometimes inconvient, it is nice to see the old fashion American value of practicing what one preaches.

 

Tom

Since I live in Canada, we still have no stores stocking this film as of yet. So I called Kodak at their 2424 number and he wasn't sure when Canada will get it. But he did offer to give me two sample rolls for free to try, and I said of course yes. I was going to ask him that anyway, he just beat me to it. Funny thing was he remembered me and said he hadn't heard from me in a while. I was shocked at that as how could he remember me out of the 100s of calls they must get during a week over some months. If anyone wants to try a roll, ask Kodak to see if they'll send you one. For me its great because as I said I don't know when Canada will get this film.

 

When I get my two free samples, I will shoot one roll and an old roll of Ektar 25 I have and see how they compare. I hope that old Ektar 25 is still usable as it may have degraded by now. When I get the results, I'll post what I see in this forum.

Thank you, Ms Oster, for being so responsive and cancelling my order. I'll of course continue to shop at Adorama.

 

Regards,

"Benny" (real name is Seth, but when I first started using the Internet I didn't feel like using my real name.)

<b>Scott</b> - <i>Since I live in Canada, we still have no stores stocking this film as of yet.</i>

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That's what I'm seeing, too. Not that I'm desperate for film or anything, but it would be nice to shoot a roll to see if it lives up to the hype.

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I've talked to 2 local stores - 1 indicated they will try to get some with their next Kodak order (which may not be for a while), and the other, a Kodak partner of some sort, had no idea what I was talking about.

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Scott, I'm not sure what phone number you're referring to - I wouldn't mind getting that from you, either in-thread or via email if you don't mind.

My package from Adorama just arrived a few minutes ago. Some observations on the film follows below. The film box looks like any other Kodak film box except it says, Kodak Professional Ektar 100. It is made in the USA and finished "south of the border." It has a temperature flag that says to keep it below 55F/13C and is "recommended but not required." Cassette has the professional labeling patch like on Kodachrome 64 Professional (PKR). Thats is a big yellow patch located more towards the lip of the cassette, rather than a white one tucked around back near the DX sensing strip like on Kodachrome amateur (KR). The emulsion is #5041 with a expiration of 11/2010. All twenty rolls were the same number. One complete brick and another partial with some loose rolls. Maybe they were scraping the bottom of the barrel to ship mine? I don't care, I got all I ordered. I would post something, but I have no way of scanning the film.

 

Robert Johnson me@robertejohnson.com

hehehe...Robert, I actually thought the box looked pretty cool, if it's the same design that's shown in the pictures I've

seen. Kind of a modern, sleek design. It's probably the best design I've seen, it does really get your attention.

 

Anyway, you obviously can't judge something by the box, so we'll just have to see!

 

I just ordered some from Freestyle, and there wasn't any notice about it being in short supply. I talked with someone

(a clerk, but he did seem very knowledgable) when I was down there a couple of weeks ago. It seemed like they

were definitely excited about it and so they're probably prepared for it being in demand. But maybe for some places,

the demand was even more than they expected?

 

The last time I logged in to my account, it said the order was "pending." I'll feel better when I get an email from

Freestyle saying that it was actually "shipped." They're usually really fast, and I only live an hour away from LA. So

depending on how fast the post office or Fed Ex is, I'm expecting to get it probably on Monday or so.

The box(es) I received shows the same picture as in the announcement and ad from Adorama. Kind of dark for good internet reproduction. No information inside the cardboard box. If you want any, you better know where to look on the internet. As for your delivery, you better hope they don't send it 2 or 3 day Priority Mail by the post awful service. Places within say 50 miles of Nashville routinely receive two day service. Drop a small card or envelope in the corner box and it's delivered the next day. The priority stuff goes to like Memphis or Louisville for sorting and is then sent back. As for FedEx from here, they don't even put it on a plane to Memphis. Put on a truck and it's in Memphis in like 3 hours, sorted and sent by plane unless close to Nashville, then it would go back on maybe the same truck? FedEx has like 12,000 employees that work in a one square mile area of the Memphis airport and the shift is usually from 6 or 8 til around 2 or 4 AM. I have a friend that does their Motorola radio equipment there and a son that writes the GPS programming for the shuttle busses, all 100 of them!

 

Robert Johnson

Well, I live in California, about an hour away from Los Angeles. If I really wanted to, I could just drive down there and pick it up...but the gas would cost more than the shipping.

 

So I'm thinking that they'll just box it up, and the post office or Fed Ex will just pick it up and bring it down here. I swear, one time I got an email from Freestyle about an order, and I looked up the tracking number online. It arrived here before it even showed up under the tracking number.

Scott, can you provide Kodak's contact information? Thank you.

Just got mine from Freestyle. But now it is raining hard (nearby Sacramento)! Oh well....maybe next weekend will be better.

My local store, it seems, just got a shipment. I hope to try some next weekend.

Now can we get Adorama and B&H to restock Fuji Reala in 35mm? That haven't had it for a couple of months.

Just got some. Hope to shoot through a roll next weekend.

Psul aul

 

re: Fuji Reala 35mm - I'm checking this out and will come back to you

 

Helen Oster

Adorama Camera Customer Service Ambassador

Dear Seth

 

My pleasure to be able to help.

 

 

Helen

FYI--B&H now has Ektar. I just called Kodak and my roll is on the way!! :)

Yes, I, too, got in touch with B&H — it seems they have about two hundred rolls in stock, at the same price as

Adorama and Calumet ($4.49/roll).

I find totally surprising that Adorama hasn't had Reala in 35mm for a while - when I visited NYC in August, the salesperson had his hands full of Reala 35mm, some of which I happily bought and shot during the following few days..

Toni

 

I just checked with our buying department who informed me that we have Reala in 35mm in stock all the time.......

 

Helen Oster

Adorama Camera Customer Service Ambassador

Scott, let us know how your tests work out. I have several bricks of Ektar 25 and RG 25 from the old days. Generally it hasn't degraded much if any, but it usually does lose a bit of speed. I'd overexpose it about 1/2 stop or more depending on date. I'll do some tests vs. ektar 100 soon too.

 

The problem with Ektar 25/RG 25 is all the machine-processing places don't have a channel for it (it has a fairly unique base color) so machine prints look like crap. But, their prints are usually crap anyway so that's a moot point I guess.

 

-Ed