Hi,
I sent a roll of Ektar to a local pro lab and got the negatives back today. As I suspected, processing makes a big difference and as the OP noted, Ektar is very much a daylight balanced film that goes cool in even light shadow. The pleasant surprise was that proper development brings out significant subtlety in color rendition with this film.
I have posted the shots on the "

Lets see those film shots" thread (
Link Here), but will leave couple of small teasers here as well...
Steve
(Usually does not cross post...but is very excited about this outcome...)