Bill Smith's Photography

  I was last in the Juction a year ago doing a beer run to Indie Ale House, this time out I was back with my friends John Meadows, Art Liem and Ori Carmona. We wanted somewhere a bit fresh as we've been shooting a lot in the Beaches (it's a safe neighbourhood in terms of low case counts). Ori wanted to visit one of Toronto's oldest synagogues Congregation Knesseth Israel tucked away on a side street north of Dundas. The Shul is only open on High Holidays as most of the congregation moved elsewhere. The building is protected as an Ontario Heritage Site.  The Junction is the last neighbourhood in Toronto with some grit left in it leftover from the days of being a major Canadian Pacific Rail Hub (sadly the beautiful West Toronto Station was torn down in I think 1981 in the middle of the night, I've only seen it once when my family was exploring Toronto's west end in fall 1979, it was a cool looking train station.). The extensive meat processing companies and stockyards...

I finally got a chance to shoot a roll of Eastman Kodak Double X 200 Daylight motion picture stock at the end of May. If you're wondering what this film was used for, remember opening sequence of the James Bond Film Casino Royale, and Schindler's List back in the 1990s, both were shot on Double X. It has grain but pleasing grain to my eye, and I want to get some in a bulk roll for bright sunny days in the city. Processing is easy, HC110 Dilution B for five minutes, in fact I processed it with a roll of RPX 400 in the tank as well. Camera: Nikon F3HP, Nikkor Ai 50 f1.4 and Ais 28 f2.8 lens. Film: Eastman Kodak Double X 200, HC110 B.