Bill Smith's Photography

  Just like that, I'm back and I got my scanning workflow up and running. More content is coming soon, be patient. In the meantime, from a month ago from the Toronto Film Shooters trip out to Hamilton. Alex Luykx put the walk together which was great because I was running ragged getting ready for my move into the city.  It's been a while since I was last in Hamilton and it was my first time taking the GO Train to West Harbour  GO Station in Hamilton's North End across the street from the old CN Station which is now an event space owned LIUNA. It was a great group of photographers who showed up, some having gone to school in Hamilton.  I ran with my Leica IIIg and Voigtlander 50 F2.5 Color Skopar Lens, great for shooting with C-41 film. Mix of sun and cloud through me off. I got better as I went along. I love the Color Skopar lens. I've shoot black and white film through it, now colour, the lens doesn't deserve the reputation it originally had when released over 20 y...

I went up to Caledon for the morning to pay my annual dues at the Caledon Ski Club and it was a great excuse to get out and do some shooting. i packed my Cnaon P rangefinder and my last roll of Kodak Pro Image 100.  This was a great combo, one camera, one lens and one roll of film. I like the Canon P, pity Canon rangefinders are starting to creep up in price because a Canon 7 would be nice to add to the collection/fleet.  Camera: Canon P, Canon 50 F1.8 LTM lens.  Film: Kodak Pro Image 100. 

Kodak Pro Image 100 is a really nice film, Lomography sells it under it's own Lomo 100 C-41 branding and is quite resaonable in price. I shot a roll of this back in July under overcast conditions and found the colours quite muddy, this time out I shot on a sunny day with puffy clouds and oh boy, like Ektar 100, this film loves bright sunlight. What I love about this film I don't have to worry about skin tones as I would with Ektar 100 witness in the shot I took of my friend Markus while he was getting his shot of the Goof sign. Compared to Color Plus 200, Pro Image 100 handles subject matter in the shade better witness the fender shot I took of the blue Chevy muscle car and didn't require much in colour correction in scanning. Hint, you want to correct as much as you can in the scanning process, that way you don't have to burn your eyes out messing around in Lightroom or Capture One. Camera: Nikon FE2, Nikkor Lenses. Film: Kodak Pro Image 100. ...