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The Leica R5 Test Roll

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 I'm doing this ass backwards, I should have posted this back in April prior to the March photowalk as this was the first roll through my Leica R5. The big question, why the R5, and not the R7?. Simple answer, the R5 only needs a pair of SR44 batteries, the R7 needs twice as many. Two, I was looking for something around the same age as my R6.  For those not familiar, the Leica R5 is a very well featured manual focus SLR with a battery operated shutter, with full manual metering, aperture priority, shutter priority and program modes. Compared to a Nikon FE2, the R5 is a more complex beast roughly the same size. While Nikon went for simplicity with  centre weighted metering and robustness, Leica loaded up on features like a built in diopter and both spot metering and their version of Matrix metering. On this little self directed wander I exclusively used spot metering in full manual mode and aperture priority. It pays to familiarize yourself with the R5 before using, it's n...
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Continuing The Odds and Ends, Yorkville Wander in December before the Snow.

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 Snow didn't really arrive until Boxing Day, most of December looked like extended November, I haven't shot much medium format since I moved to Toronto from Oakville two years ago, and I haven't shot with a Rolleicord for a long while. I forgot how nice Scheider glass is, speaking of which, I got a 2.8 C Rolleiflex with the Schneider Xenotar lens at the spring Toronto Camera Club fundraising sale for an amazing price.  As of writing I'm waiting for some Bay III accesories before I head out and run a test roll through it. In the mean time, we have my Rolleicord Vb results. I used Ilford HP5 becuase the light was pretty low in the sky and sunset was late afternoon.  I plan to shoot more 120 this year, the results are too nice.  Camera: Rolleicord Vb, 75 F3.5 Schneider Xenar Lens.  Film: Ilford HP5 400, Ilfotec HC 1+31. 
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A weekend in Second Summer in October 2025

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  Paid way too much for a special edition camera, but you know what, I was born in Montreal, lived there for the first 12 years of my life and still foot for the Habs (they are having a decent playoff run so far), so there. I loaded up with Fomapan 100 and enjoyed an early October weekend starting an Espresso and croissant at L'Amour in my neighbourhood, then  a trip down to Graination to pick up some negatives and went up to Bathurst St. on the edge of the Annex to scout a starting point for the October Toronto Film Shooters Photowalk.  On saturday Jo-Anne and I explored Moore Park west of Mount Pleasant Road, checking out my great granddad Arthur Smith's house at the corner of Glenrose and Clifton. We then wandered west along St. Clair, then down to The Rebel House for a late lunch.  In hindsight I should have processed the Fomapan 100 in 510 Pyro to control the highlights.  Camera: Canon F-1 Montreal Olympics Edition, FD SSC 50 F1.4 lens.  ...
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