Bill Smith's Photography

 After the St Patricks themed photowalk with Toronto Photowalks, I loaded the F100 with some Bergger Pancro 400 to change things up a bit after two rolls of Cinestill 400, and was pleased with the results. I've shot a fair bit of Pancro 400, sadly rather thin on the ground in these parts post pandemic. The last 20 rolls was purchased through Fotoimpex in Berlin Germany and shipped here during pandemic times. BH Photo still has it as out of stock.  What I like about Pancro 400 is the character, this time around the grain is a lot tighter, and I wonder if it's the perfect exposure courtesy the matrix metering in the F100, I'm wondering if this is the best roll of this film I shot since I first discovered it online. The secret I guess is the Matrix metering, and perhaps the autofocus as well. The one thing I'm not a fan is the cupping, which I solve by reverse rolling and storing in a film storage cannister for a couple of days, even then newton rings do pop up here and th...

You could make an argument that this past winter was one big long false spring for before winter sort of appeared for a week or so in late March. It was a glorious Friday afternoon and I wanted to play with the second Nikon F100 I bought recently from Burlington Camera, I kitted it out with the battery grip and the F100 became even more perfect in my hands.  With colour matrix metering shooting colour film with the F100 is like getting cheat codes for a video game. I was amazed with the end results from Lomo 400 C-41, don't know if it expired or not, but wow the colours were pretty much spot on.   Camera: Nikon F100, Nikon AF-D 50 F1.4 lens.  Film: Lomo 400 C-41 film.