Bill Smith's Photography

  I day tripped up to Uxbridge one late Sunday morning back in June when I found out, the firm handling the dismantling of the York Durham Heritage Railway was in the process of scrapping some rolling stock that couldn't be sold off whole, they were going I guess to be parted out and scrapped.  The cmaera of choice was my Canon New F-1 and Kodak Gold 200, it's a no lose combination. The FDn lens coatings love colour film.  Camera: Canon New F-1, FDn lenses.  Film: Kodak Gold 200. 

 I finally found an FDn 35 F2 lens that wasn't over priced and two, a science experiment. The Cine lens rehousing crowd have been obessed with Canon FD lenses over the past few years and have been buying up the best examples. As much as I love my early 1970s pre SSC chrome nose 35 F2 lens with the Thorium element, having a lighter lens in the camera bag is a nice thing to have. Once it landed I mounted the FDn 35 F2 on my Canon New F-1 and wandered the neighbourhood early in the new year around the neighbourhood.  The results speak for themselves, this lens rocks, but then most FD mount lenses do. I used Lomochrome 92 400 film, they position it as a nostalgia result, you know, faded prints and such from the 1990s. I shot with one roll last Summer in my Nikkormat FT3, I like the results from the New F-1 better, now bear in mind, it's a more accurate meter and the camera is ten years younger. No doubt I would get similar results through a Nikon F2 from the 1970s with a well sort...