Bill Smith's Photography

  I gotta stay away from the used counter at Burlington Camera (famous last words). This makes my second EF in my tool shed, and  works better than my first one. The Canon EF was a test bed for new technology, featuring a vertical copal shutter, something Canon would not adapt into the autofocus era, that was hybrid mechanical/electronic being evey shutter speed was mechanical above one second and everything slower was electroncially controlled, and was shutter priority. The EF fell between the F-1 and FTb in the product line up and was geared to well healed advanced amateurs who loved cool technology. In the end the EF after a five year run was replaced by the better living through plastic AE-1 while on the surface being the same as the EF in function was geared to a more casual photographer, then a well healed enthusiast who loves their tech.  Personally, I'll take the EF over the AE-1 any day of the week. I love the large shutter dial which inversely controls the apert...

  Jo-Anne had a fabulous idea for a photo walk, chocolate and pasteries. I think she wanted to justify a visit to Soma's King St. location. We started at Graination Lab  and made our way south, first stop, Kop's Donuts. Who knew this little donut spot had two Michelin stars, learn something new every day. The next stop of course was Soma, where the group loaded up on chocolate. From there we tracked northeast stopping at Millie Pattriserie on Oxley St., the last stop before making our way to C' Est What for lunch was Aux Marveilleux de Fred, the pastry shop to end them all. I had one of their chocolate croissants and was spoiled for life.  The Canon F-1 I recently bought got a workout on this outing, using mostly the FD 50 F1.4 SSC lens along with the FDn L Series 20-35 F3.5 Zoom lens. I got really crisp negatives with Ilford HP5, in hindsight I probably could have gotten away with Ilford FP4 125, then again hindsight is 20/20.  My other camera, the Rollei 35S had th...