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Cannington Ontario, Thanksgiving Weekend.

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 Less than wonderful weather makes for better photography.  I drove up to Cannington Thanksgiving weekend to meet up with my cousins Leslie and Wendy for coffee as well as clean up the family cemetary plot on Consesssion 11 just south of town.  Cannington is a small farming town in the northern end of Durham Region and my family has roots in this part of the world, The Smith family owned a feed store on Cameron Street which while my great grandfather William George Smith sold the business before World War 1 and settled in Toronto. The building that housed the business burned down in the early 1990s and is still a vacant lot. Sadly in some ways the town is now a bedroom suburb for Newmarket and Aurora or Oshawa and there's little activity.  Camera: Nikon FM2n, Nikkor AIS 28 f2.8 lens.  Film: Eastman Kodak Vision 3 250D, ECN2 processed by Graination Lab. 
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NLP 2025, Driving Home.

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 Of course on the drive back to the city, we get the nicest weather of the long weekend up north.  Camera: Nikon FM2n, Voigtlander 40 f2 Ultron SL II Lens.  Film: Eastman Kodak Vision 3 250D, ECN2 Processed at Graination Lab 
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Merry Christmas!

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  There's a story, I've played around with the Leica R system but never took the plunge, well, my brother Alex, enabled me. He had a decent Leica R collection but sold it to streamline his collection prior to moving house back in 2009. Turns out there's seller's remorse that grew over the years. Alex bought back in the past few years, through a text conversation via Facebook Messenger enabled me. I blought a chrome Leicaflex SL with working meter, a 2 cam 50 F2 Summicron R lens. and a 35 F2.8 Elmarit, also a 2 cam R lens.  The SL feels solid, one reviewer commented it felt lke an old Cadillac, I vehemently disagree with that statement, this camera is the embodiment of of an early 1970s Mercedes 300 SEL with the 6.3 Litre V8. The shutter sound is hypnotic a solid thunk.  R lenses are over engineeed and the optical quality is something else.  I loaded up my SL with a roll of Ilford HP5 400 and shot ir around downtown Oakville which felt odd in some way. I moved away ov...
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