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Let's Roll Back To October, For the Cinestill Photo Walk

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This is what happens when you procrastinate in processing pushed rolls of HP5, they sit for a frew months,  Let's roll the clock back to late October 2024, when things were slightly less weird in the world.  Andre Domingues of Negative Positives Podcast fame told me that his employer, Cinestill was hosting a photo walk in Toronto, Alex Luykx and I flew the Classic Camera Revival flag. Going to photo walks you didn't organize is fun, because we're not the ones herding the group.  We met up at Downtown Camera by the used counters, along with well over a hundred other people. By the time we went across the street for the group shot at Metropolitan United Church across the street, the group was up to 200 plus. Both Alex and I were thankful we weren't leading this photo walk. Usually with the monthy Toronto Film Shooters FB group walks, we get maybe 20 people on the busiest walk.  It was pretty simple, start at Downtown Camera, pit stop at Graination Lab with the end poin...
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Walk Along College in Little Italy

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 I've shot my share of Bergger Pancro 400 over the years, and I'm a sucker for it's tonality. That said, once I run out of the 35mm, I'm not shooting with it again. Pancro 400 in 120 however, now that's a different ballgame, it sings in my F series Rolleiflex, the 75mm F3.5 Zeiss Planar lens does the film justice. I'll have to track down another brick or two of Pancro 400 in 120 when I run out. It's not a common film on this side of the Atlantic.  The Rolleiflex came along for the ride with me a few weeks ago to renew my passport as it was expiring in July, the Service Canada location in Little Italy is a lot more civilized compared to other locations. All in all, took maybe a half hour on the outside and I was down the street having lunch at Cafe Diplomatico. The new passport showed up a week and a half later which blew my mind, that was fast.  Haven't shot much with TLR last year, all my Rollei's and Mamiya C220F were in storage. I plan to shoot sq...
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Downtown with the Nikon F2 Photomic.

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 I was doing some photo walk research, I wanted to piece something together around The Well and the King and Bathurst/Portland area, it's still a work in progress. It was a solo walk because Jo-Anne was up north visiting family as her brother was visiting from Scotland. I also wanted to stop by Soma Chocolate's King St. West outpost for some chocolate bars to spoil her. I also wanted to shoot around King St. West which like my neighbourhood in Midtown Toronto is morphing at breakneck speed. I remember going to the Rotterdam Brew Pub (which became the Amsterdam Brewery) at King and Portland and the neighbourhood, had, character. More accurately in the mid 1990s it was rough around the edges but starting to evolve from the garment district to a marketing/tech hub, and much later club district.  I rolled with a black Nikon F2 Photomic, it is one of two in my collection, it was traded to me for an early Canon F-1. Shot with it a little last fall and was then loaned out to Alex Luy...
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