Bill Smith's Photography

 My friend from the film photography podcast and fountain pen collecting communities Jaek Rose was in town to catch a show and wanted to check out some pen stores, prior to meeting up with him I walked down Spadina from College to Grainnation, then made my way over to the Hockey Hall of Fame to meet up with him.  The skies were polished cement, so lets shoot somc colour film. sounds counter intuitive but here we are. I also wanted to try out my niece Charlotte's Christmas present, a Nikkor Ai 28 F3.5 lens which of course worked perfectly. (Spoiler alert) She loved the lens on Christmas Day!  Camera: Nikon F4, Voigtlander 40 F2 Ultron SL II Lens, Nikkor Ai 28 F3.5 lens.  Film: Fuji Superia 400, processed at Graination Lab. 

Haven't shot much with Ilford HP5 of late, it feels like a comfortable pair of Sperry Top Siders and I know what this film can do with different developers, especially pushed an the big bonus, the negatives dry flat. There always is a post on social media somewhere comparing Kodak Tri-X to Ilford HP5, to the point it has become an almost clickbait cliche. I'm on team HP5, for the record, and the results below shot at 320 ISO and processed for the 400 ISO times in Ilfotec HC 1+31 just plain sing.  Nikon F4, 40 F2 Voigtlander Ultron SL II Lens, Nikkor Ais 28 F2.8 lens.  Film: Ilford HP5 400, Ilfotec HC 1+31.