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The Distillery District Christmas Market Dec 2025

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 Pre pandemic, I nearly went to the Distillery District Chirstmas Market as as part of a Toronto Film Shooters night outing the Tuesday before Christmas. My friend James Lee and I got nowhere near the Distillery District, one look at the line up to get in which stretched around the district, twice along that finding parking was downright impossible. The end result was, "Fuck that" and we let everyone know through text we will be at Betty's (a King East stalwart dive bar that has since moved to Leslieville) and my camera never left my bag.  Flash forward to December 2025 a group of us, Jo-Anne her friend Grace and I went to the Christmas Market, being smart, we went on a weekday with slightly less crowds and no cover. Jo-Anne was a tad disappointed, it was much more focused on food stalls than artisinal crafts and even for a week day,  it was busy. We came, we saw, had lunch and then went to Soma Chocolate at King and Spadina because the Distillery District location had a...
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Leicaflex SL2 in the Cold.

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 It was a cold January, and my 50th Anniversary Leicaflex SL2 soldiered on. Couldn't say the same with the 50 F2 Wetzler 3 Cam R Summicron lens, it got still in windchills around -20c. This was two days after the 60cm dump of snow this past January. The 50th Jhare SL2 has a dead meter, no idea if it can be revived but I have black Doomo clip on light meter I use for my Leica M4-2, even that struggled a bit in the cold. All that said, the SL2 handled the cold really well.  Toronto got hit with a massive snow storm, upwards of 60cm of snow in one go, followed by a polar vortex event. This roll started in front of Graination a day or two before the great blizzard of 2026. Everything else happened after the worst of the cold.  Camera: Leicaflex SL2 50th Anniversary, 35 F2.8 Elmarit 2 Cam R lens, 50 F2 3 Cam R Wetzler Summicron Lens.  Film: Ilford HP5 400, 510 Pyro 1+100.  ...
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