Bill Smith's Photography

 I haven't shot with my Olympus OM-1's in over a year and a half due to the move, after my Nikon F mount collection, the OM mount is the second biggest in my camera collection. I picked out one of my OM-1md and the MC Zuiko 35 F2 lens and travelled light. Heck the OM platform is very light for a 35mm SLR, it's been on more hikes then I can count and to New York City.  So navigating Toronto streets with one body, two lenses and a couple of rolls of Flic Film spooled Eastman Double X was a great combo.  Camera: Olympus OM-1md, Zuiko MC 35 F2 lens.  Film: Eastman Double X spooled by Flic Film, Ilfotec HC 1+49. 

 I finally found an FDn 35 F2 lens that wasn't over priced and two, a science experiment. The Cine lens rehousing crowd have been obessed with Canon FD lenses over the past few years and have been buying up the best examples. As much as I love my early 1970s pre SSC chrome nose 35 F2 lens with the Thorium element, having a lighter lens in the camera bag is a nice thing to have. Once it landed I mounted the FDn 35 F2 on my Canon New F-1 and wandered the neighbourhood early in the new year around the neighbourhood.  The results speak for themselves, this lens rocks, but then most FD mount lenses do. I used Lomochrome 92 400 film, they position it as a nostalgia result, you know, faded prints and such from the 1990s. I shot with one roll last Summer in my Nikkormat FT3, I like the results from the New F-1 better, now bear in mind, it's a more accurate meter and the camera is ten years younger. No doubt I would get similar results through a Nikon F2 from the 1970s with a well sort...