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Impluse Purchase, My 2.8C Rolleiflex

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I'm a member of the Toronto Camera Club, have been since June 2024 when I moved into Toronto, joining was a no brainer, I co-founded the Oakville Camera Club 20 years ago, and wanted to find my tribe in the city along with access to a darkroom. One committee that's part of the TCC is the Used Camera and Gear Sales , they take donations from both club members and the public, check all the equipment out, price accordingly and re-home with club members and the general public. Monies raised goes to club activities.  Well.....during the club AGM the Used Camera and Gear Sales Committe had a table up front and to the side with some cameras for sale, including a Mamiya RB67 kit, the camera that caught my eye was a C Series Rolleiflex with the 80 F2.8 Schneider Xenotar lens. I think over the course of the AGM portion of the evening, I looked at the camera, gave it a good once over and offered to buy it. One E-Transfer to the club treasurer when I got home, the 2.8 Rollei was mine. All ...
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Flic Flim Elektra in the Spring.

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 Flic Film Elektra 100 needs bright light which you will see on the last part of the roll from my wander down Spadina. The first three quarters of the frames, the colours are more subdued.  I shot with my Nikon F2SB, haven't used this camera in a minute and yes, it's one of my favourite F2 Variants..... Camera: Nikon F2SB, Nikkor N 28 F2 lens, S.C. 50 F1.4 lens.  Film: Flic Film Elektra 100 (Kodak Aerocolor Survailance Film). 
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One Camera, One Lens Exercise, Canon Rangefinder Edition

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 I had to go downtown back in April to handle some lingering business with mom's estate with the bank, I packed one camera, one lens combo, this time around the Canon 7 with the Canon LTM 36 F1.8 lens. A nice combination for shooting south of St. Clair. For those who can't swing the Leica M mount system, I highly recommend taking a long hard look at the Canon rangefinder system. Some ways the bodies were nicer then Leica M mounts with titanium shutters and an ease of loading like an SLR as opposed to going through the bottom like Leica.  The Canon Leica Thread Mount (M39) 35 F1.8 is a fun little lens. It pre-dates the LTM 35 F2 lens from the 1960s so it pre dates the 7 rangefinder and is a companion to the P and the VT Deluxe, but I'm a user of the Canon rangefinder system and nowhere an expert, while I have a copy of Canon Rangefinder Cameras 1933-1968 by Peter Dechert it's about the cameras much less about the lenses.  With this roll I also wanted to try Eastman Doubl...
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