Bill Smith's Photography

 Took a walk down Spadina from Sussex Avenue to Graination to document Spadina Ave. from University of Toronto to the south end of Chinatown. I had a sweet spot with camera, lenses and film along with a beautiful afternoon. Of course after Graination, a stop into Sonic Boom to do some record shopping. I chose one of my Nikon F2AS bodies along with ORWO UN 54, like having to rolls in a tank for processing so this was the companion to the one I shot through my Leica IIIG in the previous blog post. This roll in particular is the first one I scanned using Silverfast 9 as my scanner interface.  Scanning software for those of us who don't scan with a digital camera and Negative Lab Pro is our godsend. Outside the manufacturer's interface, it's either Vuescan or Silverfast that will be your interface of choice. Vuescan is great software, and I'm keeping it for scanning documents which I have to do on occasion, it's sort of a well thought out "Jack of All Trades" ...

 Been ages since I shot colour, don't know, I was in a black and white mood all winter.  I loaded up one of my Nikon F2AS bodies with some FlicFilm Elektra 100 which is respooled Kodak Aerocolor IV surveillance film. Unlike consumer film or motion picture stock, Elektra 100 is on a polyester base, while thin, will not tear while inside the camera which is both a good, and bad thing. Good as in you won't have a delicate acetate base breaking on you (that has happened to me on a rare occasion). The bad thing, if the polyester based film doesn't quite rewind all the way back into the cannister, don't force it as the camera will break before the film.  Outside that, Elektra 100 is fun to shoot with. I love the colour palatte it produces, the only caveat being a polyester based film, load it in near dark to reduce the chance of light piping.  Camera: Nikon F2AS, Nikkor Ai mount Lenses.  Film: Flic Film Elektra 100 (Kodak Aerochrome IV 100). Processed by Graination La...