Bill Smith's Photography

 Slide film. I do have to shoot it a bit more often.  Camera: Nikon F3HP, Nikkor Ai lenses.  Film: Kodak Ektachrome E100 slide film. 

 I took another stab at shooting slide, I haven't shot much since the old Ektachrome got chopped back in 2012. The first roll of E100 I ran through my now shelf queen F4 and I wasn't happy with the results. This time I ran with one of my Nikon F3HP with the 70/30 centre weighted metering which has never let me down. I loved the results I got from using this camera, and I trusted the camera's meter.  The other thing I did was try Dave Nardi's E6it Slide Processing service. Two things, he was local, Downtown Camera was his pickup and drop off and I've seen the end results from others, and that sold me. I just don't shoot enough slide film to justify processing at home.  Camera: Nikon F3HP, Nikkor Ai lenses.  Film: Kodak Ektachrome E100. 

 The beautiful days are getting fewer and farther between as it gets darker before winter solstice, the grey skies look a lot like a dirty white T Shirt left in the Line Two subway tunnel near Ossington Station for two weeks, or, sandblasted sterling slver, you get the idea. Now on occasion you'll get a nice later fall day and the sun comes out and you just want to go out for a walk.  The Nikon F2A is one of my workhorse cameras, and, they have been up to the NLP photography retreat in the past and never failed. They will head back north with me, maybe next year. We'll see.  Camera: Nikon F2A, Nikkor Ai 50 f1.4 lens.  Film: Kodak Max 400.