Bill Smith's Photography

Alex Luykx, The Toronto Film Shooters Facebook Grop founder decided to take our 10 Anniversary Photowalk on the road to Guelph Ontario about an hour's drive away and it was a fun Sunday to reconnect with friends I haven't seen in a while and explore a town I usually roll through on the way to Elora. I chose my circa 1960 black Nikon F along with Kodak Ektar 100 as one of my camera choices for this walk and despite the challenging lightin conditions with sun and cloud, I got great results.  Lens wise, I used a tick mark Nikkor S 50 F2 which collectors love and it rendered colour well for a 62 year old lens.   Camera: Nippon Kogaku Nikon F, Nikkor S 50 f2 lens.  Film: Kodak Etkar 100. 

There's something about Kodachrome's colour palette that can't quite be replaced. Camera: Nikon F3HP, Nikkor Ais 50 f1.8 lens. Film: Kodachrome 64

I was passing through Guelph a few weeks ago on my way up to Elora to meet up with friends from the Toronto Photowalks group. I stopped to shoot the downtown a bit and meet up with my friend Tracy from high school for coffee. I haven't seen her in 20 years and it was great to reconnect. I even managed to get a pair of portraits of Tracy who is camera shy, to respect her wishes, I'm not posting them. Now, Guelph on a Sunday morning is pretty quiet and I captured that, the downtown has a lot of great architecture but it is a bit on the seedy side with the overwhelming number of bars catering to Guelph University students and it was a little sad walking past the offices of the now defunct Guelph Mercury. Camera: Olympus OM-1n, Zuiko 50 f1.4 lens. Film: ORWO UN 54, D76 1+1.