Bill Smith's Photography

 We started on a sunny day but things got gloomier after lunch as in by the time I got back to Jo-Anne's the skies started to rain.  The other thing, my Canon 7sZ needs a CLA, I think I'm going to the 7s as well and get them both serviced. The 7sZ suffers from shutter bounce at random and some odd flare, you can sorta see in the corner when I use the late 1960s vintage 35 F2 lens, not on every frame but it's there. I should try that lens on my Canon P and my Leica M bodies and see what I get. That said my last experience with 50D was with Cinestill 50D with the RemJet removed. This is true motion picture stock with RemJet still in place and procesed in native ECN-2 chemistry. I like the results but I think 250D is the more practical film for still photography.  Camera: Canon 7sZ, Canon and Voigtlander Leica Screw Mount Lenses.  Film: Reflx Labs spooled Kodak Vision 50D, ECN-2 Processed by Graination Lab.  ...

  It was one of those, "not a cloud in the sky" summer scorchers, of course the Toronto Film Shooters held a photo walk, because, why not, we were stopping to sample Gelato (Gemma on Yonge St. is the place to go). We went down to the Belt Line Park to loop northwest to Eglinton.  Canon 7sZ, Canon and Voitlander Screw mount lenses.  Film: Reflx Labs spooled Eastman Kodak Vision 50 D, ECN-2 processed by Graination Lab. 

 I was in Toronto for a meeting at my condo thst got cancelled due to my paint contractor getting sick, not to waste a day, I decided to play tourist in the city and head to the Distillery District. I picked up at Canon 7sZ from my birth year and test the Elcan 50 f2 lens (in LTM mount) with colour film in this case, Gold 200.  The Light Lens Lab Elcan 50 f2 lens (a bit of a mouthful), is a faithful copy of a 54 year old Leica Canada made lens that was coupled with a beefed up M-4 for a US Department of Defence contract specifically the US Army. The KE-7A as a set goes for a well equipped brand new VW Golf GTI, that is if you can find one. In the end, the Elcan 50 is a four element in four groups not of which are cemented, like civilian lenses. In the end the LHSA (Leica Historical/Hysterical Society of America) went gaga for this lens. In reality with lanthanite glass, we have a brand new 54 year old lens made with 21 century manufacturing techniques.  Does it replace th...