Bill Smith's Photography

 The York Durham Heritage Railway had a good run, sadly it's no more. Operated by railroad enthusiasts with some vintage Alco diesel locomotives and rolling stock some of which was vintage Canadian National, Ontario Northland and some "Boisie Budd" stainless steel coaches. The downfall was from what bedevils most non profits, really bad senior management resulting in burnt bridges with Uxbridge town council. It's a shame because the heritage railway brought tourists to town.  Jo-Anne and I went up and discovered that on Sunday, Uxbridge has their farmer's market and of course with all day trips we take our cameras. in my case my Nikon F2SB, and I chose Fomapan 400. Of course got some great photos. One thing though during the middle of scanning Hammrick decided to push an update out for Vuescan, so halfway through, you might notice a slight change, I had to re-learn everything. I hope Hammrick sees the error of their ways and send out another update to fix the unin...

 Yeah, I gotta stay away from Ebay. I now have a decent Nikon rangefinder collection, the Nikon S3 2000 looks new even though it was made 25 years ago and based on a 60 year old camera design. In hindsight this along with the SP 2000 introduced in 2005 was Nikon's last kick at the can with pure mechanical film cameras, so much so, retired employees were tracked down and rehired to run the assembly lines because the current employees didn't have the expertise.  A few short years later a massive product cull reduced the film camera catalogue down to the FM10 (made by Cosina for Nikon) and the F6, everything else, gone. There will never be another Nikon film camera, ever. Those who knew how to make them are gone, the supply chain is gone and to get that back up in running doesn't make financial sense.  That said rebuilding Nikon rangefinders for a short run in for the home market was a great way to cap an era off.  Camera: Nikon S3 2000, Nikkor S 50 F1.4 lens.  Fil...