Bill Smith's Photography

 Love shooting with ORWO's UN 54, still sitting on some bulk rolls in the freezer, that's why I like so much. I'm not going to comment on their current ownership and hold out hope that maybe Lomography will make them an offer they can't refuse some day.  UN54 is a 100 ISO daylight balanced black and white motion picture stock that is leveraged as a still film. You can get in 100ft/30m bulk rolls, or spooled up 35mm cassettes from a variety of sources. Lomography sell this film under the Lomo Kino Potsdam name. Prior to the great pack and purge of 2023 in Oakville and the move of 2024 to the city, I used D76 or ID-11as the developer of choice. Problem, I don't have the room to store stock D75/ID-11 in my condo, so I had to find a liquid developer that can do the job well. In come's Ilford's Ilfotec DDX at a 1+4 dilution, DDX is their version of Kodak's Tmax developer.  I used the developing time provided by Lomography for Potsdam and it worked perfectly. ...

Portra 160 is going to be part of my to films going forward. One question I do have is I have a random line that cuts across the image, not every frame. I have only been getting this with the XD. Two different labs processed film I've run through this camera over the summer, I've eliminated the lab angle. On close inspection, I don't see anything inside the XD that would cause this. I consulted with fellow Classic Camera Revival hosts and the consensus is a scanning artifact caused by the negative holder not seating properly. Check the sunflower photo below, any other Epson V600 users have any ideas? My current scanner is about 9 months old. Camera: Minolta XD, MC and MD Rokkor X lenses. Film: Kodak Portra 160.