Bill Smith's Photography

 I confess, I don't shoot a lot of slide film, Kodak Ektar 100 is pretty reasonable and I can get the Kodachrome look without having to hijack a TARDIS and go back to 1972. Slide film is expensive to buy, Kodak E100 is about $28 per roll while Fuji Provia 100 is roughly $8 cheaper if you can find it, most stores are out of stock on that. I had one roll of each and went up to Elora with my Canon New F-1AE. The weather forcast was for a sunny day, well that was the forcast reality was we got a ton of high altitude haze from the forest fires in Northern Ontario.  Shooting slide film is a different beast, pretty much like you are shooting digitally as you are metering for the highlights as not to blow them out. Didn't have that problem today, that said waiting for the slides to come back from processing by Dave Nardi at E6it was worth the wait. My Canon New F-1's are coming north with me this year, if the trip up to Billie Bear is a go.  There is a difference between E100 and...

 I haven't shot with Ilford HP5 400 in a while, and I forgot how nice it can be near box speed ( I usually expose around 320 ISO to help out the shadow detail a wee bit). Paired with HC110 or Ilfotec HC at 1+31 it makes for quick developing and the results speak for themselves. HP5 is a great choice because of its super wide exposure latitude which is a must this Summer due to the changeable weather.  Camera: Canon F-1n, FD 50 f1.4 SCC Lens.  Film: Ilford HP5 400, HC110 B. 

  I haven't been up to Elora since spring 2019, which feels like a million years ago for obvious reasons and now that I'm fully vaccinated I want to do more day trips, weahter permiting, it has been wet the past few weeks.  Going up to Elora is a fun day trip, it's a landlocked Niagara on the Lake, but without a theatre festival, the arts scene up in Elora is more low key and funky. I like coming up here for the day to wander around and grab lunch at the Elora Brewing Company. Having been away for a year I forgot how much I like this small town.  I've been on a Canon kick this Summer, having recorded an in depth Classic Camera Revival episode on the F-1 system  with my friends Jess Hobbs, John Meadows and Ori Carmona, I'm really enjoying shooting with this system.  Camera: F-1n, FD 50 f1.4 SCC Lens,  Film: Ilford HP5 400, HC110 B.