Bill Smith's Photography

  Jo-Anne and I got out of town for a few days at the end of August, sort of an early birthday trip for me. I've been to Prince Edward County twice before a decade ago but they were day trips and hauling across Toronto just added to a long day. This time around we stayed in Bloomfield at the Walter Motel part of Angeline's Inn, can't recommend them enough.  We drove in on Loyalist Parkway through Hillier stopping by Norman Hardie Winery for lunch, their pizzas are delicious, the wine, something else but I prefer Stanners for their Pinot Noir, we visited on the way out a few days later on our way home.  I packed my Olympus OM-4Ti as my camera of choice with a three lens kit and only ran with black and white film. The trip would have been all Adox CHS 100 II but mother nature had other ideas.  It was the second day I had to go to Rollei RPX 400, I prefered black and white on this trip, and we go back next year, it will be black and white film too.  The one time I ...

  Slide film, isn't forgiving compared to say Kodak Pro Image 100 or Ultramx 400. I do love shooting Flic Film Chrome 400, which is motion picture Eastman Kodak Etkachrome 100, which is also the same as Kodak Alaris E100 but with sligthly different shaped sprocket holes. The big plus of Flic Film Chrome 100 is cost, and it's the same stock. Plus having Graination Lab investing in a new E6 line makes shooting slide much easier.  What's not easy is scanning slide film, sadly Silverfast 9SE isn't set up for slide film, I have to upgrade to the Studio version and that's not cheap software but I plan to do that at some point. Thankfully I still have Vuescan and it does a decent job with slide film. Granted I have not used Vuescan for several months since I made the switch to Silverfast.  I rolled with my Olympus OM4Ti which uses off the film plane metering which I trust, same with my Nikon F4, F5, F90X and F100 with Matrix metering. Shooting slide requires being on point...