Bill Smith's Photography

 It's interesting to re-walk a photo walk route a month later, first time around was with a Leica M5 and Kodak Gold 200, this time around it was with Kentmere 200.  Shooting with Kentmere 200 this time around as mentioned in the last post, I exposed at box speed and got great results. This film is that in between 100 and 400 and every bit of good. I think it excels on sunny days when you need a slightly faster film but 400 ISO is a bit too fast. Kentmere 200 processes easily in Ilfotec HC, I should try in Rollei Supergrain at some point.  The F4 used was the third one and the most recent acquisition with no LCD bleed in the upper and lower read outs and a P screen, the perfect se up for manual focus lenses. I tend to grab the F4 over the F3's I have, must be the matrix metering and the fact you can buy AA batteries anywhere.  Camera: Nikon F4, 40 F2 Voigtlander Ultron SL II Lens.  Film: Kentmere 400, Ilfotec 1+31.  ...

I took inspriation from a Toronto Photo Walks route from early July, tinkered with the route a bit and put together the August photo walk for the Toronto Film Shooters, of course Southern Ontario along with the rest of Eastern Canada felt like a pizza oven at full blast in early August.  This time around I shot with Kentmere 200 at box speed through my F4. Of course with matrix metering, there's not one bad exposure on the roll. This is a no nonense film to shoot with that delivers a consistent result that's more contrasty than Kentmere 400.  Camera: Nikon F4, Voigtlander 40 f2 Ultron SL II lens.  Film: Kentmere 200, Ilfotec HC 1+31.