Bill Smith's Photography

 This has been a winter, sadly I haven't been on my skis once, and I'm going to take this season off, which is sad due to the huge dump of snow this past month or so, and it's been consistantly cold, amazing ski weather, and I'm on the injured roster, a sprained hip flexor. Can't ski but I can walk and walking has been good to loosen things up. I'm going to hit the gym again soon to start to rebuild strengh.  I walked around my neighbourhood with my black Rollei 35S, and a roll of Bergger Pancro 400 and it helped me loosen up the problematic left hip flexor. Walking around was good, sitting for long periods of time bad, and twisting the wrong way even worse. Throw in multiple dumps of snow, winter photography in North Toronto changes everything.  There are days I wonder if the Rollei 35 is the perfect group photo walk camera. It's super light, the optics, be it Tessar, Xenar or Sonnar are amazing, and you have any focal length as long as it's 40mm, which...

 Rollei 35's make the best photo walk camera, sometimes, when you want to reduce decision making and work with just one focal length. Two the light was so damn bright this late October afternoon, Cinestill 400D just plain sang with the Zeiss 40 f2.8 Sonnar lens.  I didn't quite nail every shot 100% and I had light strike on the first three frames, one I salvaged in the magic of cropping, one sadly didn't get scanned and the third, I just lived with it.  Camera: Rollei 35S, 40 f2.8 Zeiss Sonnar Lens.  Film: Cinestill 400D, processed at Graination Lab.