Bill Smith's Photography

 I picked up a Nikkor AIS 28 F2 lens, to add to my manual focus Nikkor lens fleet. I already own a Nikkor N 28 F2 which is a pre AI F mount. Fast lenses are expensive and you are paying for the wider aperture for low light shooting environments. Usually you get a compromise with speed for sharpness, some cases like the 35 F1.4 you get barrel distortion you have to fix in post processing in Light Room. I don't have that in the 28 F2 series of lenses. Barrel distortion is rather low.  I was waiting for my friend Dana to come into the city for dinner, it gave me an opportunity to wander around the Annex for a bit very late afternoon/early evening. I love this neighbourhood, spent a lot of time around there back in the 1990s. For those not from Toronto, the Annex is just northwest of University of Toronto's downtown campus and the borders sorta starts in Bathurst in the west end to about Avenue Road to the east. with the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Rail corridor to the north and ...

This is what happens when you procrastinate in processing pushed rolls of HP5, they sit for a frew months,  Let's roll the clock back to late October 2024, when things were slightly less weird in the world.  Andre Domingues of Negative Positives Podcast fame told me that his employer, Cinestill was hosting a photo walk in Toronto, Alex Luykx and I flew the Classic Camera Revival flag. Going to photo walks you didn't organize is fun, because we're not the ones herding the group.  We met up at Downtown Camera by the used counters, along with well over a hundred other people. By the time we went across the street for the group shot at Metropolitan United Church across the street, the group was up to 200 plus. Both Alex and I were thankful we weren't leading this photo walk. Usually with the monthy Toronto Film Shooters FB group walks, we get maybe 20 people on the busiest walk.  It was pretty simple, start at Downtown Camera, pit stop at Graination Lab with the end poin...