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Continuing with Roncesvalles

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 So Art and I continued down Roncesvalles and ending up at Pizzeria Delfina for lunch, worth the trip regardless where you're coming from, they make a fabulous Neopolitain pizza. Roncescalles Village is a very photogenic neighbourhood in Toronto, and one of my favourites to hang out in outside my own.  I only had one of roll of Pro Image 100 in my camera bag so I switched to Fomapan 100 for this blog post and is a counter point to the last post.  Fomapan 100, is part of my regular arsenal, it develops great in D75/ID-11, 510 Pyro and Rollei Supergrain Developer. In this case, it's Rollei Supergrain, there's a certain crispness to the negatives I enjoy working with.  This might be a 100 ISO/ASA  or 21 DIN Summer as much as possible, that's both colour and black and white film whenever possible. There will be some instances where I might have to go faster (really overcast days, they do happen in the Summer).   Camera: Asahi Pentax Spotmatic II, Super Multi Co...
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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...
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