FlicFilm Chrome 100

Chrome 100 is Kodak Ektachrome E100 respooled. Flic Film buys master rolls of the current Ektachrome 100D cinema stock (the same emulsion Kodak markets as still-photography E100), wraps it into their own DX-coded cassettes in Longview, Alberta, and sells it for roughly twenty-five percent less than a fresh Kodak-branded roll. That price gap is the only meaningful difference. What comes out of the processor is Ektachrome.

The emulsion is the post-reformulation E100, brought back to market in 2018 after a five-year hiatus when Kodak had to re-source dozens of raw chemicals and reformulate the emulsion before the line could restart. It uses T-grain crystals scaled smaller than anything in Kodak's earlier slide catalog, which produces the finest grain in any current E-6 reversal stock. Daylight balanced at 5500K, low contrast by reversal standards, with a tonal curve built around accurate skin and clean shadow gradation rather than the saturation push that defines Velvia 50.

Most photographers rate it at box speed, but the trade rule of underexposing slide film by a third to a half stop applies here just as much as it does to fresh Kodak E100. The highlight roll-off is gradual but not infinite. If a scene has both a bright sky and a face in shade, expose for the sky and accept the shadow drop.

Process in standard E-6. Cross-processing in C-41 gives the shifted yellows and pumped blues that have made Ektachrome a fixture of zine and skate photography for years; it is a real choice, not a hack. Compared with Fujifilm Provia 100F it runs slightly warmer and less saturated. Compared with the discontinued Ektachrome 100G, it is essentially the same film with a tighter grain profile.

Available in 35mm 36-exposure cassettes only. No 120 under the Flic label.

Reciprocity exponent is 1.0. Zone Light Meter applies no correction; the metered time is the shot time. That holds past about ten seconds in Kodak's own data. For exposures longer than a minute, bracket conservatively because E-6 reversal punishes underexposure faster than any negative film does.