Kodak Ektar 100

Kodak Ektar 100 on Fujifilm is a vivid-but-restrained Velvia recipe with Color pulled to −2, a warm +2 Red / −1 Blue white balance shift, and Grain switched OFF for the film’s signature near-grainless finish. It is built for clean daylight landscape, travel and architecture where reds and skies stay rich without tipping into full slide-film exaggeration.

Why this base

Velvia is the correct starting point because Ektar sits just one step below slide film in saturation, not below a neutral stock. Dropping Color to −2 tames Velvia’s default punch so foliage and skies read vivid yet believable, while Color Chrome Effect Strong deepens already-saturated reds and greens without oversharpening the transitions. That combination gives the crisp, saturated landscape signature Ektar is known for.

How to shoot it

Use this in good light — clean midday sun, bright overcast, or early travel mornings where colour does the work. DR200 protects bright skies and white architecture while the +1 Shadow lift keeps building facades and shaded foliage open. The +2 Red shift warms reds and skin-adjacent tones the way Ektar renders them, and Color Chrome FX Blue Weak adds just enough depth to blue skies without crushing them to navy. Keep exposure slightly conservative at −1/3 to 0 EV so highlights retain the clean, dense saturation Ektar prints show. Sharpness +1 with Noise Reduction −2 and Clarity +1 delivers crisp edge detail on distant landscape and stonework.

What to avoid

Do not treat this as a full-punch Velvia landscape recipe — the whole point is restraint, so resist pushing Color back toward 0 or adding grain. Ektar is a fine-grain film, so Grain stays OFF; introducing STRONG grain contradicts the look. In flat, low-contrast light this recipe can feel muted because it relies on directional daylight to separate its saturated colours, so save it for scenes with genuine light and colour rather than grey, shadowless conditions.

The recipe is tuned for X-Trans IV and V bodies. Because it uses Clarity +1, the X-T3 is excluded from the tagged cameras — that body has no Clarity control, so users on it should simply omit that single setting and keep everything else. On every other listed camera the Velvia base, the −2 Color pull-back and the +2 Red shift combine to give a controlled, warm, landscape-ready interpretation of Kodak Ektar 100.