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Mirvish Village Reborn and into the Annex/Sussex Village

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  After Koreatown, we wandered into the recently reopened Mirvish Village, a sort of transitional micro neighbourhood between Koreatown and The Annex. The old and long gone landmark, Honest Ed's, a discount department store, now the site of a market rate apartment complex. The one cool establishmentt I fell in love with is Book Bar, Toronto needs more indie bookstores, and a bar and book store mated together concept is cool. There are echos of the old Honest Ed's in an Alleyway off Sussex.  I'm happy with results from Kentmere 100, I was gift a bulk loader of Kentmere 400, I should spool some rolls up and see what I get.  Camera: Nikon FE2, 
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Wandering Christie Pits and Koreatown Shooting Kentmere 100

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 I haven't shot Kentmere 100 in a minute so I grabbed a few rolls from Downtown Camera to play with. I loaded one of my Nikon FE2's for the mid week photo walk with the Wednesday Gang. I processed in Ilfotec HC keeping everything in the Harmon family. Kentmere as a photo brand has been around a long time prior to becoming a sister brand of Ilford. I remember Kentmere made a great fibre paper, it popped in Photographer's Formulary Ansco 130 clone paper developer. The 100 and 400 ISO (much more recently 200) showed up a few years post takeover offering photographers a less expensive option to the established offerings.  Bloor Street from Christie Pits and into Koreatown have been under explored and it was a fun walk with the Wednesday Gang. I still miss Clinton's that said, all things change..... Camera: Nikon FE2, Nikkor AIS lenses.  Film: Kentmere 100, Ilfotec HC 1+31.  ...
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