Downtown with the Nikon F2 Photomic.

 I was doing some photo walk research, I wanted to piece something together around The Well and the King and Bathurst/Portland area, it's still a work in progress. It was a solo walk because Jo-Anne was up north visiting family as her brother was visiting from Scotland. I also wanted to stop by Soma Chocolate's King St. West outpost for some chocolate bars to spoil her. I also wanted to shoot around King St. West which like my neighbourhood in Midtown Toronto is morphing at breakneck speed. I remember going to the Rotterdam Brew Pub (which became the Amsterdam Brewery) at King and Portland and the neighbourhood, had, character. More accurately in the mid 1990s it was rough around the edges but starting to evolve from the garment district to a marketing/tech hub, and much later club district. 

I rolled with a black Nikon F2 Photomic, it is one of two in my collection, it was traded to me for an early Canon F-1. Shot with it a little last fall and was then loaned out to Alex Luykx for his Youtube review and I know full well he'll be looking for one at some point.  Things were great with the photo walk, until they weren't. my black F2 bricked on frame 31. The shutter and film transport jammed up but I could rewind the film which was a relief. The camera is now off  to Lens MedicYYC for a CLA and will be back in my hands within a few weeks. 


Camera: Nikon F2 Photomic, Nikkor N 28 F2 lens, Nikkor SC 50 F1.4 lens. 

Film: Kodak Tri-X 400, Ilfotec HC 1+31. 


The Well Escalators_ Inside the Well March 2025_ The Well Roof March 2025_ Inside the Well Two March 2025_ The View From Front St. West._ Draper St. Window Dormers Weathered Front Door on Draper Draper Park_ Draper Avenue Parking_ Wellington and Portland The Wellington Pub Marc 2025 Homer on the Wall March 2025 Ruby SoHo Clock_ Entrances On King West MAr 2025 Former Piano Factory MAr 2025 511 Off Route MAr 2025 King and Bathurst NW Corner MAr 2025 Factory Theatre MAr 2025 Factory Theatre TWo MAr 2025 Sara and Little Sister MAr 2025 Portland Alley MAr 2025 Westbound 504 at Portland King St. West Project._ 504 Rolling Past theKing St. West Project._ Favourite King St. West Entrance Paris Texas March 2025 Fresh and Wild Corner March 2025

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Barnack Madness, What Was I Thinking?

Image
 My last adventures with Scewmount Barnack Leicas didn't end well, on the few occasions I tried my brother's IIIf and IIIg, I botched the loading and got 36 exposures on one frame. I was quite content to just shoot with my M3 and M4-2, even though I wanted to get a IIIg because Alex got dad's from the estate.  Logic has no place shooting with a Barnack Leica, if the cliche film photography slows you down, working with a III series body is an exercise in zen. First you have deal with bottom loading, wind the film advance before adjusting shutter speed and be careful where you point your camea as bright sunlight can incinerate a rubberized silk shutter cloth instantly.  That said, Joan at Burlington Camera had this red dial Leica IIIf from the mid 1950s with a pre war Elmar 50 F3.5 lens, on the used shelf, I saw it, handled the camera, and put it back. In a fit of camera GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) a few weeks later I came back in and bought the camera. I wonder if Joan...
Read more

Second Roll of Aerocolor IV (Flic Film Elektra 100)

Image
 I bought a bunch of Flic Film Elektra 100 after shooting a roll of Santa Color 100 late last fall down in Niagara on the Lake  with my good Canon New F-1. I packed a two rolls gifting one roll to my brother Alex before heading south on vacation for a week. This time around my second adventure of Kodak Aero Color IV at a different time of the year.  Again, I shot at "box speed" at 100 ISO only this time through my Nikon F3/T. This time I loved the results even more, not just because it went through a different camera system. I think back late last November there was more infrared light in the spectrum due the time of year thus influencing the colour cast of the Aero Color 1V. Shooting the second roll in late March gave me a lot more the look I adored. Due to the polyester base Aero Color IV is easy to scan, you can almost colour correct during the scanning process, reducing your work flow a bit at the other end in Lightroom. Again being a polyester base, you want to load...
Read more

The New Addition to the Fleet, the NIkon FM2T

Image
 I didn't need a NIkon FM2T but I got one. I already have both a chrome and black Nikon FM2N bodies but being not only an analogue photographer I'm also a Nikon collector. Ok, the FM3a's are getting a little out of hand in the used market. As you have read over the past few months I've been on a gear acquisition tear this is more a prize. James over at Casual Photophile wrote a great pieec back in 2019 on the camera , and pretty much shares what I think, yeah, you don't really need this camera but if you're a Nikon collector you want one. The FM2T was only made from 1993 to 1997 and is a rare beast in the grand scheme of things compared to the FM2n which was made from 1989 to 2001. What the FM2T is a lighter and tougher version of the FM2N. with a titanium outer housing, like a regular FM2n it feels great in my hand. This particular example was spot on with the meter and did not take one bad photo at all.  Film wise I ran with Ilford Delta 100, I'm just tryi...
Read more