Bill Smith's Photography

 The Classic Camera Revival podcast hosted it's 10th anniversary photo walk, my friend John Roberts flew in from Vancouver for the weekend, I wanted to show him a bit of Toronto and after stopping off at Graination for a film top up, Harbourfront made the most sense.  Summer up to the last two weeks of August was silly hot thanks to a heat dome which gave us Miami in July temperatures, South Florida can have its weather back thank you very much. We rode on a short turning 510 streetcar and got off a Queens Quay then walked along the pier running parallel to the Music Garden.  We worked our way east until the heavens decided to open up around York Quay, John and I hopped a Union Station bound 510 Street Car as the rain picked up steam. I can't begin to describe how muggy the weather was.  Haven't shot with the Canon New F-1 AE in a bit, and I wanted to put the FDn 35 F2 through its paces. Yeah, this lens is worth every penny. I do have  a bit of a hate on for the...

 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...