Bill Smith's Photography

 I sent my Canon F-1 to be sorted out, it had frame spacing and shutter bounce issue. Well my tech solved one issue and tamed the other by 60%. The big challenge with the shutter bounce was it was caused by the shutter brake. The obvious solution would be to tear the shutter brake down and rebuild. Well, easier said than done, some hack stripped a tiny screw critical for the disassembling the shutter brake long before I got the camera. Same said hack also was probably responsible for the mystery light leak the bugged the hell out of me for a few years until that was solved.  So the shutter bounce has been tamed by 60% and I'll have to live with that. Considereing I own an F-1n and a pair of New F-1s, I can survive with what I have unless a really good early F-1 crosses my path at a price I can't refuse.  Camera: Canon F-1, FD Chrome Nose 50 f1.4 lens.  Film: Eastman XX, Ilfotec HC 1+31 @ 6.5 min.  ...

I was in Little Portugal recently to check out Alternative Photo Services open house at their new location, I've known Bob Carnie for years and if you need an exhibition ready group of photographic prints for the Tate Modern Gallery in London England, he's your go to guy. I did a photowalk during the Summer last year in the neighbourhood and I really liked the potential it has for a future Toronto Film Shooters event. When and where we start and end I'm still figuring out. The Canon EF was my camera choice and I wound up using the chrome nose FD mount 50 f 1.4 lens most of the time,  ran with pushed Ilford HP5 400 at 1600 ISO and metered off one of my Sekonic L398 meters. This is a solid combo. Sadly the on camera meter is off by a few stops and could use a re-calibration. Not a huge priority, the camera otherwise works just fine. Canon EF, FD 50 f1.4 Chrome Nose lens. Film: Ilford HP5 400 pushed to 1600, HC110 B.

I was up in Milton Ontario Canada Day (July 1) to record some Classic Camera Revival Podcasts over at my friend James Lee's place. I had some time to kill and wandered around the downtown. The Canon FTBn was for an upcoming episode on cameras that got passed around the group, this case Mike Bitaxi sold me the Canon for $40. Tossed another $60 for a CLA and she works. Some people ask me if I'm a professional photographer, the answer is no, I do sell prints on occasion and if you ask me really, really nicely, give me complete creative control, and don't be an ass about it after the fact, I'll photograph your portraits. Just to prove I'm not in it for the money, I shoot film, only film unless I'm grabbing a snapshot or event photo on my iPhone. The film photography community is very welcoming, even more so in the film photography podcast community, I was invited onto the Classic Camera Revival, I guess going on two years ago, and I am happy to count Alex, Jo...

Sometimes you just have to get out of the GTA for the day.... Camera: Canon F-1N AE, FDn 50 f1.4 lens. Film: Ilford Delta 100, HC110 B.

More goodness from Port Stanley. Camera: F-1N, FD 50 f1.4 SSC lens and FD 28 f2 SSC Lens. Film: ORWO UN 54, Xtol 1+1,