Bill Smith's Photography

Bergger Pancro 400, a dual layer black and white film that looks beautiful in medium and large film formats, the tonality is gorgeous. In 35mm, the tonality is there but we got grain, a fair amount of it. I decided to give it the college try to crack the cold of Panrco 400 in 35mm, the first roll you seel below was processed in Rodinal 1+25. Yup, grain, reminds me of J and C Classicpan or Fortepan 400 from 15+ years ago. Great tonality but grain you can play nine innings with. My Portrait with Alexandria has the depth, and I like what I got out of it, the shots during the rain on Kerr St. look great but downtown Oakville was dark and lacking in shadow detail which is hard to come boy. Not sure I'm going to process again in Rodinal, I have shot a roll of Pancro 400 up in Elora a few years back with some success with it being processed in HC110 B. Now the big proviso, I shot this roll at 320 ISO which usually gives me shadow detail I need, I may have to expose at 250 ISO and see w...

Kodak Tri-X 400, a stalwart black and white film, Tmax developer originally designed for T-grained films. I never tried them together, oh boy do these photos look great! I shot around Oakville Harbour and the old part of town two weeks ago. The camera of choice was the classic Pentax Spotmatic F and of course the Takumar glass is amazing. Up until recently I always processed Tri-X in either Xol, D76 or HC110 dilution B, what I got from my Fomapan 400 roll by using Tmax developer blew my mind so of course I have to experiment. What you see below I would print in the darkroom. Of course I bought another bottle of Tmax developer. Camera: Asahi Pentax F, SMC Takumar lenses. Film: Kodak Tri-X 400, Tmax Developer 1+4

Life comes back the deeper we get into Spring. Camera: Asahi Pentax Spotmatic F, SMC Takumar 55 f1.8 lens, 200 f4 SMC Takumar lens.

I live in Oakville Ontario, have been for a long time, downside photography close to home becomes close to impossible due to familiarity. This year I forced myself to shoot more close to home in my travels. Time to embrace #lifeinthe905. Camera: Asahi Pentax Spotmatic F, SMC 55 f1.8 and 28 f3.5 Takumar lenses. Film: Lomography F Squared 400 (Ferrania Solaris 400)