Kodak Ektar 100 Film Emulation on iPhone

Ektar 100 is Kodak's answer to the question: how vivid can color negative film get? With the finest grain of any color negative stock ever produced and saturation levels that approach slide film territory, Ektar turns landscapes into postcards and blue skies into something almost electric. REGRADE brings that saturated intensity to your iPhone through AI regrading that knows exactly how far to push color without crossing into the artificial.

What makes Ektar 100 distinctive

Kodak Ektar 100 occupies a unique space in the film world. It is a color negative film that behaves like a slide film in terms of saturation, but retains the forgiving exposure latitude that negative stocks are known for. Introduced in 2008, it was engineered to be the world's finest-grain color negative film — a claim that still holds. Its reds are almost alarmingly vivid, its blues are deep and dimensional, and its greens have a richness that digital cameras struggle to reproduce natively.

• Finest grain structure of any color negative film ever manufactured
• Ultra-saturated color rendering — vivid reds, deep blues, rich greens
• High contrast that gives images a punchy, postcard-like quality
• Exceptional sharpness due to low grain and high acutance
• Slightly warm bias in skin tones — less neutral than Portra
• Negative film latitude with near-slide-film vibrancy

Best for

Ektar 100 was made for shooting the world, not people. Landscape photographers love it for the way it handles blue skies and green foliage. Travel photographers use it to give their images that vivid, almost hyper-real quality that makes a viewer feel like they could step into the frame. Architectural photography benefits from its sharpness and the way it renders materials — red brick glows, concrete takes on weight, and glass reflects deep sky tones.

• Landscape and nature photography
• Travel and destination photography
• Architecture and urban environments
• Macro and close-up work where sharpness matters
• Any scene where vivid, saturated color is the goal

How REGRADE emulates Ektar 100

Ektar's saturation is its signature — but it is a specific kind of saturation, not the uniform slider-push that Instagram filters apply. Reds and blues are amplified more aggressively than yellows and greens, and the contrast curve is steeper in the midtones than in the highlights. A static LUT cannot replicate this selectively.

REGRADE captures flat sensor data by disabling Apple's computational photography stack, ensuring maximum color information in the raw capture. The AI regrading engine then applies Ektar's characteristic saturation profile with scene awareness — recognizing that a sunset needs different treatment than a forest canopy, even though both contain warm and cool tones. The result is saturation that feels photochemical rather than digital: vivid without becoming neon, punchy without losing subtlety.