Bill Smith's Photography

Kodak Pro Image 100 is medium speed C-41 film that historically was available in some parts of the world and not others. To my understanding Lomography sells it under their brand name by the container load. While using order emulsion technology compared to Ektar 100 or Portra 160, Pro Image 100 has the advantage of being very tolerent of wide temperature swings. Now available in North America Pro Image 100 is only available in 35mm x36 exposure cannisters in five packs. Now, it will pay to shop smart as pricing is all over the map. Both the Film Photography Project and BH Photo sell the Pro Image five packs for the equivelent of about $35 Cad. Meanwhile locally the price per roll is about $14 CAD. I'm big on supporting local businesses, but the math just doesn't add up in this case. I shot my roll of Pro Image 100 through my Leica M3 with the Type One Collapsible 50 f2  Summicron lens. So we have the pinnacle of mid 1950s 35mm optics to work with. It was also a bright su...

The Toronto Film Shooters Facebook on the first weekend of Summer day tripped up to Peterborough for a change of scenary and met up with the Kingston Film Shooters Group. The sun was out and it actually felt like Summer (Yay to the end of Deluxe April). I met some great people and we talked about gear, film and photography in general. On this trip I packed two cameras, one of my Canon New F-1's loaded with Ferrania P30 Alpha and my Leica M3 loaded up wth Kodak Pro Photo 100 which I'll showcase next blog post. Ferrania P30 is an 80 ISO black and white motion picture stock turned still film that magically appeared a year and half ago during Film Ferrania's tortuous re-birth. This film was  motion picture stock used to make a lot of classic Italian films in the late 1950s and early 1960s. P30 was and will be sold again in 36 frame rolls and processes well in a variety of black and white developers, in my case I used HC110 dillution B. My advice to anywone, follow the inst...