Kodak Ektacolor Pro 800 Colour Negative Film
Kodak Ektacolor Pro 800 is a professional, daylight-balanced colour negative film designed for exceptional performance in low light and changing lighting conditions. With a high-speed ISO 800 sensitivity, it combines natural skin tones, accurate colour reproduction and ultra-fine grain, making it an excellent choice for weddings, portraits, events and available light photography.
Its exceptionally wide exposure latitude provides the flexibility to work in challenging conditions without sacrificing smooth tonal reproduction or fine detail. Whether you're capturing an indoor wedding, photographing a concert or exploring a city after dark, Ektacolor Pro 800 gives you the speed and image quality needed to make the most of the available light.
Why We Like It
Ektacolor Pro 800 is a fantastic choice when you need extra speed without compromising on colour or detail. We particularly like it for weddings, events and atmospheric portraits, where its flattering skin tones and wide exposure latitude help you work confidently as the light changes.
Ideal For
- Wedding and event photography
- Portrait and fashion photography
- Low-light and indoor photography
- Concerts and live performances
- Street and travel photography
- Handheld photography in challenging light
- Commercial and lifestyle photography
- Photographers looking for natural colour and high ISO flexibility
Exceptional Low-Light Performance
With its ISO 800 sensitivity, Ektacolor Pro 800 is designed for situations where slower films may struggle. It allows you to work with faster shutter speeds or smaller apertures in limited light, making it particularly useful for handheld photography, indoor events and moving subjects.
Natural Skin Tones and Accurate Colour
Ektacolor Pro 800 delivers soft, accurate colour reproduction with beautifully natural skin tones. Its balanced colour palette and smooth tonal transitions make it especially appealing for portraits, weddings and fashion photography, where flattering and consistent results are essential.
Ultra-Fine Grain and Sharp Detail
Despite its high sensitivity, Ektacolor Pro 800 maintains an ultra-fine grain structure with excellent sharpness and resolving power. Its detailed negatives are well suited to high-quality scanning, photographic enlargements and prints.
Exceptionally Wide Exposure Latitude
The film's wide exposure latitude gives you useful flexibility when working in difficult or rapidly changing light. It helps accommodate variations in exposure while preserving smooth tonal transitions and detail, making it particularly valuable for weddings, events and location photography.
Versatile Daylight-Balanced Colour Film
Although designed for low-light performance, Ektacolor Pro 800 is equally capable in brighter conditions. Its daylight colour balance and high sensitivity make it a versatile choice for photographers who want to move between outdoor scenes, interiors and changing light without switching films.
Manufactured by Eastman Kodak
Manufactured by Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York, Ektacolor Pro 800 is part of the expanding Kodak Eastman still photography range. Drawing on Kodak's long heritage in photographic film manufacturing, the range brings professional photographic emulsions to today's analogue photographers.
Key Features
- ISO 800/30deg. daylight-balanced colour negative film
- Professional high-speed film for low-light photography
- Ultra-fine grain and excellent sharpness
- Accurate colour reproduction and natural skin tones
- Smooth tonal rendering and rich colour
- Exceptionally wide exposure latitude
- Ideal for weddings, portraits, events and indoor photography
- Suitable for handheld photography in challenging light
- Excellent for scanning and photographic enlargements
- Available in 35mm and 120 medium format
- Standard C-41 colour processing
- Manufactured by Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York
