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A Walk Westward Along Dundas from Ossington to Roncesvalles

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  My friend, my brother from another mother, Art Liem was in town from Southern California to visit family, and we decided to do a Sunday Photo Walk, he was packing his trusty Pentax LX with a Pentax A 15 F3.5 Super Wide Lens, I rolled with something more old school, and attainable, an Ashai Pentax Spotmatic II loaded up with Kodak Pro Image 100.  The plan was to get to Ossington and Dundas after breakfast and make it up as we went along, which was wandering west on Dundas to Roncessvalles. We stopped by a mutual friend and master darkroom printer Bob Carnie at his gallery, then continued on. Brockton Village or Little Portugal is a very photogenic neighbourhood wiht a lot of street murals. My choice of film Kodak Pro Image 100 (now Kodacolor 100, same stuff different packaging) hit the sweet spot with the Super Multi Coated Takumar lenses.  Lens wise with my Spotmatic II, I leaned heavy on my Super Multi Coated Takumar 28 F2.5 and 50 F1.4. Both lenses rendered colour rea...

New Lens Post, the Voigtlander 35 F1.4 Nokton II SC Lens.

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  I picked up an M mount lens recently, the Voigtlander Nokton 35 F1.4 SC II lens. My friend from the Toronto Film Shooters Ron Chen has one on his Leica M4-2 and loves it. I put my new lens on my M5 and it was my lens for the day. Short answer, if you're a Leica M shooter, or any full frame mirrorless and you want a lens with some character, get this lens!  Fellow photographer from the Film Shooters Collective Katie Mollon was in town back in April, her husband works in the auto parts industry and was participating in corporate training at the company headquarters. Katie saw it as chance to get out of town for a few days and reconnect with Toronto friends. We started at the Distillery District, went up to Rosedale for lunch. Sadly the Rebel House was closed (it was on a Monday) so we wound up at the sandwich spot Black Camel. In the end we walked back to her hotel and hopefully Katie's husband wasn't stuck in traffic hell.  Camera: Leica M5, Voigtlander 35 F1.4 Nokton II...