Bill Smith's Photography

 Haven't shot with my Minolta XE-7 in a while and it was time to pull it out and give her a workout with a roll of Fomapan 400 which is now my go to 400 ISO black and white film for every day use. I rate it in 250 ISO and process in Ilfotec HC 1+31, and prior to that HC110. The big selling feature with Fomapan 400 aside from looking like old school Kodak Tri-X from the 1970s and unlike Tri-X, Fomapan 400 dries flat which is amazing for scanning.  Once I'm out of of ORWO UN54, I'm planning to switch over to bulk loading Fomapan 100 going forward. The price is right and like Fomapan 400, I get amazing results.  All the film geekery aside, it was a nice Friday morning before the rains hit when most of these photos were taken and for some reason I kept coming across vintage Rat Rod Chevys in my travels. Spring has arrived, just wished it didnt' rain on the weekends.  Camera: Minolta XE-7, MC Rokkor lenses.  Film: Fomapan 400, Ilfotec HC 1+31.  ...

 I haven't shot colour film since last fall, and when storefront retail shut down just after Christmas, I just shot black and white film for months. It took me a while to figure out how to scan Kodak Ektar 100, I love the film but it can be a misery to scan on occasion and I have to fix it in Lightroom. It got better as things went along in this roll. I broke down at the end of May a shot a roll of Ektar 100 to capture some of the tulip action at Gairloch Gardens. What I found interesting, with the overcast skies, I got better results as the roll went on.  Totally unrelated, the lead off photo, you've seen this house a ton of times, by the time this post is live it will most likely be torn down to make way for another house with twice the square footage. Sad reality, this house was a tear down at $3 Million CAD ($2.6 Million USD), yup 2600 Square feet with a pool in back on a third of an acre corner lot. The house next door was realtively the same size (based on the same origi...

 I haven't shot colour film in forever, especially Kodak Ektar 100, I also forgot how to scan the stuff and I needed to get my sea legs back metaphorically speaking. Things got better as the roll went on, I was shooting with my Minolta XE-7 as I always found Rokkor glass sympathetic to colour film. I'm also going deeper into Lightroom to correct some of the odder colour shifts.  Camera: Minolta XE-7, MC Rokkor lenses.  Film: Kodak Ektar 100.