Bill Smith's Photography

 The August Long Weekend was a nice one for photography, had a great frugal film roll, I also packed my chrome Nikkormat EL and shot some recently expired and refridgerator stored Kodak Ektar 100. I'm really pleased with the results.  The Nikkormat EL was a precurser of what's to come in the world of Nikon, it begat the FE, FE2, FM3A by exension the FA, a well engineered prosumer camera with aperture priority. The only real downside is the 6SR44 battery that's housed under the mirror box, and you have to go through the mirror box to replace the lens. Otherwise, a really solid camera that's fun to shoot with.  Camera: Nikkormat EL, Nikkor Pre Ai lenses.  Film: Kodak Ektar 100. 

  Haven't shot with Kodak Color Plus 200 in a while, so of course I had to shoot a roll while in the city. The formery cheap and cheerful colour negative film in Canada at least is only a dollar cheaper than Portra 400. I have a hard time squaring that circle but I switched to Cinestill 400D, Flic Film Elektra 100 and Lomography 100 and 400 respectively. I'm keeping Eastman Kodak going strong for colour film.  Canera wise I ran with my Nikon F2S this walk. It was made from 1973 to 1977 and a step up from the F2 Photomic, the difference being the LED meter read out, the sensors were the same Cds cells. The F2S is differentiated with the taller DP-2 prism head. I don't shoot with this particular 2 variant often. I'm reaching more for the regular photomomic and F2A or the top of the line F2SB or F2AS. That said the F2S looks cool and of course a version needs to be in my collection.  Camera: Nikon F2S, Nikkor Pre Ai lenses.  Film: Kodak Color Plus 200.  ...