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A Walk Up from LIberty Village

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Optik OldSchool is a German photolab that a few short years ago started selling their Opti Colour 200 colour film made for them by ORWO Wolfen. I guess they like it so much Optik OldSchool bought ORWO and it's partner company Filmotec, and that was a good thing.   Opticolour 200 looks familiar think a slightly slower version of Lomochrome 92 400 and ORWO NC 500-400 ISO in terms of grain structure and colour palette. I found OptiColour 200 favoured reds and greens. Along with Harmon Phoenix 100, Opticolour 200 is a "new" colour film and that's good thing.  What makes me happy is Optik OldSchool now owns ORWO Wolfen as I'm a big fan of the black and white motion picture film UN54, I can't wait to see what else is going to come about with this new partnership.  Camera: Nikon F100, Nikon AF-D 35-70 F2.8 lens.  Film: Optik Old Skool 200 C-41 film.  ...
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My Leica M3 Returns

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 My Leica M3 went off for a much needed service, nothing was broken, it was last touched by a repair tech 15 years ago.  This time around it was preventative, a good clean, get the speeds adjusted and the lubricants replaced. Took longer than planned, in terms of logistics with the tech anything that could go wrong,  went wrong on an epic level. Nothing wrong with the camera, the tech did a great job and I would gladly continue to send my Leica rangefinder cameras, because said logistic snafu got solved so we're back to a four week turn around.  Well, lets load some film, in this case Kodak Pro Image 100 and put my Zeiss Sonnar 50 F1.5 Lens, a magical pairing, witnessed. The M3 is native for the 50mm focal length but you could shoot the 40 F1.4 Nokton Classic as well without an accessory viewfinder. I went down to Dundas West/Ossington Village and Trinity Bellwoods to give the M3 a workout.  The results blew my mind, the M3 is smoother than butter and the 50 F1....
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