Bill Smith's Photography

 Photo walks are great community builders, and the January photo walk with the Toronto Film Shooters brought a few communities together, of course the usual suspects with the Toronto Film Shooters, our friends from Toronto Photo Walks, new friends from Toronto Analog Friends, and two old friends from the Oakville Camera Club.  With the epidemic of loneliness in western society, if you are a photography enthusiast regardless of medium (film/and/or/digital, check out your local photography community and if there are regular photo walks, join one. You will meet people from a variety of walks of life with a shared interest.  The route of course started at Graination, Toronto's newest photo lab. and we made our way over to Grange Park then cutting South then west along Queen back to Spadina and then down to The Well to explore that.  Camera: Nikon F4, 40 F2 Voigtlander Ultron SL II lens.  Film: Ilford HP5 400, Ilfotec HC 1+31.  ...

The view is different up in the clouds at City Place.... Camera: Nikon FM2n, Nikkor Ais 50 f1.8 lens. Film: Ilford HP5 400, D76 1+1.

A wander around the financial district late in the afternoon in mid September. Camera: Asahi Pentax MX, SMC Pentax 50 f2 lens. Film: Ilford HP5 400, and Rollei RPX 400 processed in  HC110 B.

Summer winds down and people are back at work. Camera: Asahi Pentax MX, SMC Pentax M 50 f2 lens. Film: Ilford HP5, HC110 B.

I love my Olympus OM-2n, I have a couple of them, one with a seized shutter, one headed down to the US for an overhaul with renowned Olympus repair tech John Hermanson and a perfectly functioning body which I used here.  Single digit Olympus OM bodies are great for travel, hiking and are compact enough to go into my briefcase when going downtown for meetings. I might use both my good OM-2n's next fall up in Algonquin to save weight. Camera: Olympus OM-2n, Zuiko 50 f1.8 and Zuiko 28 f2.8 lenses. Film: Ilford HP5, HC110 B.