Bill Smith's Photography

 One Tuesday in early September I took a wander down to the Davisville Farmer's Market to meet up with Jo-Anne to grab some stuff for dinner and some fresh groceries. I loaded my 3.5 F Rolleiflex with a roll of Harman Phoenix 200 gifted to me by Hao from Graination Lab under strict instructions not to talk about until early September. Well, it's mid October and I'm finally getting around to scanning this roll, no worries about the media embargo.  I've shot Phoenix 200 in 35mm and love what I got out of those rolls, 120 delivers even more. Like what I shot through my Nikons, I rated the roll of Phoenix 200 around 125 ISO, I could have gone a bit lower like 100, but that will be an experiment for next time. You have that unique colour palatte that's Harman and I hope they keep it for the second batch when that comes around.  Camera: Rolleiflex 3.5 F  Planar Type II Twin Lens Reflex.  Film: Harman Phoenix 200, processed by Graination Lab.  ...

  Shot Harman Phoneix with matrix metering, now it was time to shoot it centre weighted metering style and for that I chose my Nikon FM3a, the last of the manual focus in house manufactured Nikon SLRs (the FM10 prodcution was farmed out to Cosina).  I really like Phoenix a lot more than Lomocrhome 92 as while its an experimental film (as in its Harmon's first colour film, period), the results are much more consistant. I prefer the warmer look of Phoenix as well and consistancy, where as outside of Lomography's core regular films, the alternative emulsions have a "Life's a box of chocolates" vibe.  Camera: Nikon FM3a, Nikkor AIS lenses.  Film: Harman Phoenix 200 @125 ISO, processed at Graination Lab.