Bill Smith's Photography

 Slide film can be frustrating, bungle the exposure and it's a disaster, get it right, you got magic. Well I got magic so far on the September Toronto Film Shooters photo walk from Graination Lab through Graffiti Alley running parallel to to Queen and Richmond Streets.  The Olympus OM-4Ti is the perfect manual focus camera for colour slide photography, the spot metering ability helps a lot along with the a utomatic Centre Weighted metering from -5EV to +19EV @ 100 ISO;f1.4 lens. I'm thinking of rolling with the OM-4Ti for my annual photography retreat next year, because 1) the meter just plain rocks, and 2) the system is going to be a hella lot lighter than a Nikon F4 and set of lenses including a Nikkor 180 F2.8 ED lenses. I loved the OM-4Ti on my trip to Prince Edward County this past August and got perfect exposures every single time.  Camera: Olympus OM-4Ti, MC Zuiko Lenses, Film: Flic Film Chrome 100/Kodak Ektachrome 100 Slide Film.  ...

  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...