Bill Smith's Photography

 Never shot seriously with Kentmere 400 before, Kentmere 100, I have and gotten decent results out of it. Positioned as a "student" film at a relatively easy price point of around $8 CAD per roll compared to Ilford  HP5 coming in around $10 CAD and change. Ketnmere as a brand only started making film after being bought out by Ilford ages ago.   What Kentmere 400 is not: Rollei RPX 400 or Ultrafine Extreme 400, while the films mentioned are being made or have been made by Ilford on behalf of other parties, none of those films is Kentmere 400. Talking with friends I mused Kentmere 400 could be a previous generation of an Ilford 400 speed film (HP4 maybe?). Either way it doesn't quite have the same latitude to push process, you can only go as far as 800 ISO, and that's ok.  I chose this film for the 2023 Frugal Film Project and have a dozen rolls set aside for the coming year. That camera I have a short list and will announce that later. I bought a bunch of extra rolls ...

 I love Cinestill 400D, from where I'm sitting I find this film much easier to work with than Portra 400,  Unlike 50D which is Vision 50D motion picture stock with the remjet scraped off so you don't have to worry about it, 400D is a native C-41 process colour negative film with my guess a lot of Vision 250D technology baked into the emulsion if that makes sense.  Through Zuiko lenses, 400D shines, it looks great when shot through Nikkor glass but Zuiko, I hardly have to tinker in Lightroom other than tame some of the green channel a bit, but, I have to do that with Portra 400 as well. The Olympus OM-4Ti and Zuiko lens system is going to be used a lot with 400D in the  future for me.  Camera: Olympus OM-4Ti, Zuiko MC lenses.  Film: Cinestill 400D.