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Efke 100 | Bill Smith

Efke 100 | Bill Smith

Efke 100 was an old school single layer silver rich black and white film from the 1950s made in Croatia by Fotokemika. Production ended in 2012 when the factory closed after an old coating machinery broke down and couldn’t be repaired. Fast forward five years, I was hanging with fellow members of the Classic Camera Revival Podcast, and Peter Lee told me there was an Ebay seller with bricks of Efke 100 in 35mm expired in 2015 for sale for about $75 Cdn, shipping included. How can I say no to that?  I bought two bricks a few weeks apart. 

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The Nikon N90s/F90x User Experience | Bill Smith

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The Nikon N90s/F90x User Experience | Bill Smith

I own a lot of Nikon cameras, yes, I collect a lot of manual focus bodies but there’s one autofocus body in my kit I picked up years ago off Ebay.  Recently I decided for kicks to run a roll of film through it, I’m talking about the Nikon N90s (in the USA) and F90x (rest of planet Earth), it is a very sophisticated sleeper of a camera that in it’s day was considered a pro body, today you can buy for peanuts.