In the Garden with Ektar
I recently ran a roll of Ektar through my Canon Elan 7N. It is a film I had meant to try for some time as it has a lot of quite vocal fans. After this one roll I have mixed feelings about it. It has wonderfully rich, almost too rich, colours but is horrible for skin tones. It has extremely fine grain – more so than any other film I have used but is difficult to scan, and if you don’t get a good exposure it is unforgiving.
These pictures are shot around my garden, with a few taken at the Starling Lane Winery that I had to hang out at for a while one day. Mostly they are of my granddaughter and the joy of salmonberries and other bits and pieces in the garden. The best of those shots are posted as part of my 52Rolls project and published simultaneously to this one there (at this link).
To open a large view of any image in the gallery below, click on it and navigate with the arrows to the others
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- Watering cans
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- Her favourite watering can
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- Pull the berries off as fast as you can eat them!
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- High up berry
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- Picnic table
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- Let’s water
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- Salmonberry
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- Nasturtium
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- Bee
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- Last year’s teazle broken in the hedge
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- Starling Lane winery
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- Starling Lane winery outbuilding
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- Starling Lane winery greenhouse
burnt embers 
Great series, Mr E!
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Thanks Katherine. The top one is my favourite, but I like the other two in the main body of the post nearly as much.
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When I shot this film I had to be very conscious of exposure accuracy in my FM. I liked the fine grain and it printed very well, even with a drastic crop. It was a unique film but I don’t think it sold well.
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Hi Ken. I don’t think it sells well now either. I suspect that is because of the price and some very good competition from Fuji, but perhaps also its reputation for low exposure latitude. I have just reblogged my post from 52Rolls and it has an example of drastic crop in it that illustrates nicely what you say. Very fine grain – grain is not even quite the word for it I don’t think as it is can be so smooth over large areas.
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