A Day down in the Beaches with my Nikon F4

 Loved my Nikon F4's, so much so, I wound up with a third body, no LCD bleed and a P Focusing Screen which makes life easy for manual focus lens users. I was on the hunt for a P screen for my F4 with the dodgy autofocus sensor, but they are silly expensive to a point $100 more got me the third body with the focusing screen I wanted. This was the test drive. Yes the camera shines with the P screen. I'm not using autofocus with this particular body. 

I wandered down to the Beaches mid week to avoid the crowds, weekends, the neighbourhood is slammed with humanity. Found it much more civilized. Of course I stopped for lunch at The Stone Lion, my go to pub in that neighbourhood. Overall, a great photography day. 


Camera: Nikon F4, Voigtlander 40 F2 Ultron SL II lens. 

Film: Kodak Pro Image 100, processed at Graination Lab 


Beaches Fire Station July 2025 Breakwall Patio July 2025 Stone Lion Patio July 2025 (2) Beaches Brewing Company Patio July 2025 Westbound 501 in the Beach July 2025 Bud's Coffee and Limon Patio July 2025 Proud to be Canadian July 2025 Sunflower July 2025 Pink Blast July 2025 kew Gardens Bandstand 2 July 2025 Bee and Sunflower July 2025 Kew Gardens Cone Flower July 2025 Kew Gardens Cottage July 2025 Big Pink and Red Flower July 2025 Black Eyed Susans Kew Gardens July 2025 Kew Beach Boathouse July 2025 Leuty Lifeguard Station One July 2025 Leuty Lifeguard Station Two July 2025 Leuty Lifeguard Station Zodiac July 2025 Bird Mural July 2025 Purple Cone Flower Explosion July 2025 Beach Foodland July 2025 501 Eastbound at Bellefair July 2025 Stone Lion Patio Before Opening July 2025 Kennilworth House and Front YardJuly 2025 Little Red CorvetteJuly 2025 Ivy Covered Corner at Kingston Road July 2025 Dutch Roof House in the Beaches July 2025 Cottage with White Picket Fence the Beaches July 2025

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