Ektar 25 / Royal Gold 25

[stephen_delear]

RG 25 was discontinued in 1998. While discussing the new Ektar 100 in another film I did a google search to see

if I could find some images shot in RG 25. Needless to say not much came up on a film that was discontinued

before 2000. Now I have, somewhere, maybe a dozen rolls I shot of the stuff while in highschool that I need to

dig out and get scanned. If you have RG25 / Ektar 25 negs can you post images so that we can establish a

baseline for comparison with the new Ektar 100 (other then "I remember that in my day...").

 

Thanks

Stephen

[ronald_moravec1]

I could make grainless 8x10 frrom 35mm. It was difficult to focus with a grain magnifier.

 

We will see.

[RobertChura]

I have some unused Ektar 25 in 35mm and 120 stored in the freezer if you would like to see for yourself.

[eddy_d]

I found some royal gold 25 at the begining of this year at one of the photo labs I go to. They had a bin where they sell lose rolls of film out of the box but in the case they come in. I have it in my refridgerator at the moment.

[bill_tuthill]

Try google image search for

"site:photo.net royal gold 25"

and you might get 5 useful samples and one joke,

although it is difficult to be certain,

because google search is nondeterministic.

[25asa]

Does anyone know what the difference between Ektar 25 and Royal Gold 25 is? Was it a mere name change or was there some change in the film too?

[brian_quinn2]

This is just from memory so it may be faulty; but as I recall I read on a Kodak web page posted about 8 years ago that the Ektar films had been rebraned as Royal Gold films with no change at all.

[brian_quinn2]

Here is information from Kodak on Royal Gold 25 AKA Ektar 25 from December 1996

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/products/pdf/e40.pdf

[kelly_flanigan1]

Here is a shot of Telecom New Zealand's dish on the north island; above Auckland back about 1991. <BR><BR>Kodak Ektar 25; Nikon F; old 1960's 35mm F2 between F4 and F5.6; handheld at 1/250 second. Using a tripod and 1/125 and stopping down one more stop would improve the corners a tad. This stuff was contasty; consumers often did NOT like it much. This lens only cost me 35 bucks in the late 1970's; a lens so old that Nikon didn make an AI adapter for its serial number block; ie what we called then an "orphaned Nikkor"<BR><BR>Kodak also had a Ektar 125 print film; and Ektar 1000 too back in 1991 Ektar 25 came in 12, 24, and 36 exposure rolls in 35mm; with the 12 exposure rolls often being freebies to let folks try out this film. In amateur Kodak Gold in 1991; there was Gold 100, 200, 400 and 1600 products; all made in 35mm. the gold 200 and 400 was also marketed in 110; ie mini kodapak. Gold 200 came also in 126 instamatic; 127 roll film and 620; but strangly not 120. Gold 100 had the 120 format.<BR><BR>There was also <b>Kodak Ektar 25 Professional in 1991 sold in 35mm and 120 roll films; a variant of Ektar 25.</b> Kodak Ektar 25 pro was PHR135-36 catalog 1645332; details in Kodak publication E-135; Kodak Ektar 25 was CK135-36 catalog 1518091 with a reference of Kodak publication E-121<BR><BR>The dish was shot with the CK variant<BR><BR>The Royal Gold line came out later than 1991. <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/ektar/NZT%20dish/ntzdish640.jpg"><BR><BR><img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/ektar/NZT%20dish/ntzdishBase640.jpg"><BR><BR><img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/ektar/NZT%20dish/ntzdishGate640.jpg">

[kelly_flanigan1]

As a side note the 1991 Kodak Pro catalog has no Panatomic-X ; Tmax had killed it off already; except for some Aerial Panatomic versions.Here I have 120 Pantomic-x with 1989 expire dates; thus it must have been axed a few years before 1991. The dish image holds abit mroe info than posted; its just an old 2720 dpi Canon scan with a FS2710 unit.

[kelly_flanigan1]

The Aerial versions of Panatomic-X were not stock factory items; it was a custom product with an extended red sensitivity; with a rough speed of 40. In came in 70mm; 5 and 9 1/2 inch rolls.

[25asa]

Actually I've seen Gold 200 in 120, so it was made at some time.

 

Im just trying to find out if there were any changes going from Ektar to Royal Gold in the 25 ISO film.

[tony_duda]

Scott, I'm not sure if Royal Gold 25 was just a name change, or actually a revised version of Ektar 25. I do remember

that Ektar 125 had a somewhat odd color mask; instead of the usual orange/brown, it had more of a purple hue. I

think Ektar 25 had this "purple" mask as well. My understanding was that this drove commercial processing labs

nuts, as it could not be run through the same channel as Kodak's Gold films, and there wasn't enough of the Ektar

films being used to justify a separate channel (for financial reasons, I would guess). I'm also not sure if this was

corrected when Ektar 125 was discontinued, and Ektar 100 (the first one) was brought out to replace it in the early

90's. Perhaps this also was only a name change, as the latitude of the film would have made the name change

basically a moot point, and setting cameras at 100 for a 125 emulsion may have even helped slightly. I do remember

just seeing Ektar 100 in stores on a stock turnover basis in place of Ektar 125. In fact, for awhile it was on the same

rack, old stock and new, in many drug stores and supermarkets. I don't remember seeing anything like, "New &

Improved" on the Ektar 100 boxes, just "Technology from Eastman Kodak Company" prominently printed on the top

of the box as it was on Ektar 125, but I'll have to check the supplies of both that I have in the freezer when I'm back

home in NJ in October. Again, Ron would probably know the real backstory on all of this.

[bill_tuthill]

I'm fairly sure that Royal Gold 25 was just a rename.

RG25 did not appear in the Kodak PhotoCD terms database,

only Ektar 25.

 

Ektar 25 scans sometimes have odd color balance.

I would have expected the Telecom New Zealand dish

to look more like this.<div></div>

[rob valine]

This was done with Royal Gold 400. I liked Royal Gold and I liked Supra. Both good films that I used quite a bit. I

liked the Royal Gold because of the saturation of colors. Fine grain was a plus too.

 

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