Bill Smith's Photography

 Recently expired Kodak Ektar 100, gotta shoot it this Summer.  We walked from Billy Bishop Airport, stopping at the Amsterdam Brew House for lunch and ended at the Toronto Railway Museum. It was a good day for photography.  Camera: Nikon FE2, Nikkor Ais 50 F1.8 lens.  Film: Kodak Ektar 100. 

 Haven't shot much with Rollei RPX 100 in the past, figured on this photowalk it was time to change that. I bought 16 rolls a few months ago to get better aquainted with the film but was well of course side tracked with colour film instead. I didn't have any Rollei Supergrain developer so ran with trusty Ilfotec HC instead and get the smooth results you see here. Some ways RPX 100 reminds me a lot of the old Agfa APX 100 from prior to their German bankruptcy back around 2005-06.  Also took out my Nikon F3HP for a spin on this walk, and I attached the MD4 motordrive as well for the full effect. I've been putting some motordrives on a few of my Nikon bodies, to my surprise, I enjoyed the cameras with them on for photo walks so I don't miss the photographic opportunities. The MD4 has bigger profile than the MD-12 for the Nikon FM(2)/FE(2).  Camera: Nikon F3HP, Nikkor Ais lenses.  Film: Rollei RPX 100, Ilfotec HC 1+31.  ...

The Nikomat EL (or Nikkormat outside of Japan), was part of the first wave of Automatic exposure cameras in the early 1970s, others included the Pentax Spotmatic ES(II), the Olympus OM-2 of 1975, the Canon EF of 1973 (they were weird being big fans of shutter priority) and the Minolta XE-7. All these cameras were aimed at advanced amateurs looking for cutting edge (for the time) tech for their camera gear. These cameras delivered. The Nikomat/Nikkormat EL harkened to further design choices Nikon made with their prosumer cameras with the Nikon FM(2), FE(2), unlike the mechanical Nikkormats the EL had the shutter dial on top and the meter reading is just like the later FE's. The one achilles heal with the EL is not the 6v 4SR44 battery specced for the Canon A series and the New F-1, Nikon decided the best place to put the battery is under the mirror box and you had to access by locking the mirror up, what could possibly go wrong? The EL was discontinued in the late 1970s with the ...