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BUSINESS, Page 55Business NotesFILMToo Crisp For Words
The best news of the year," raved a critic in the New York
Times. "A showstopper," declared another. The reviews were not for
a Broadway hit but for the hottest new product in photography:
Kodak's supercrisp Ektar color film. Not available in the U.S. for
another month, the film is so much in demand that American
shutterbugs and camera shops are buying rolls from dealers in
Europe, where Ektar was introduced last November.
Hailed as the finest-grain color film ever made, Ektar enables
photographers to enlarge pictures to poster size with almost no
loss of clarity. The film is recommended for use only with a
single-lens reflex camera, as Ektar is currently available in just
two speeds: very slow (ISO 25) and very fast (ISO 1000). Clarity
will not come cheap: Ektar 25 is expected to cost about $6 for a
24-exposure roll, compared with $4 for Kodak's most popular film,
Kodacolor Gold 100.