Bill Smith's Photography

For some reason I keep wandering back into Yorkville this past winter..... Camera: Canon New F-1, FDn 50 f1.4, FDn 28 f2.8 lens. Film: Kodak Tri-X 400 pushed to 1600, HC 110 B.

Even when it's utterly miserable, you can still find some decent photographs waiting to happen..... Camera: Canon New F-1, FDn 50 f1.4 lens. Film: Kodak Tri-X 400, HC110 B.

I haven't shot with my Canon New F-1 in a while, in fact I have two of them. My New F-1 with the eye level prism about as reliable as it gets. I bought it off my brother ages ago along with some FD lenses when I expanded my Canon FD kit. Yes this Nikon fan boy loves shooting Canon FD on occasion too. I then bought a second Canon New F-1 body with the AE prism so I actually can use aperture priority. The New F-1 was Canon's answer to the Nikon F3, it feels solid in the hand and quite inutitive. Sadly the New F-1 AE needs another trip to a repair tech due to a small meter glitch, well not really the meter but a tiny diapharm that covers the manual focus meter when AE is in play, t is now coverning 95% of the manual meter mode when I'm in manual. Why oh why didn't Canon just go with something along the lines of Nikon FE(2) or Pentax K2 in terms of metering, or even Minolta with the XD series? There's a reason why Nikon ruled the pro body market with F3HP and this is...

By the end of this walk, we were glad to get to the Rebel House to thaw out and have lunch. Camera: Nikon FM, Nikkor Ai 50 f1.4 lens, Film: Kodak Tri-X pushed to 1600, HC110 B.

The Toronto Film Shooters met up for a walk in the first snow storm of the year in Toronto. Added in for fun is relatively cold temperatures, with windchills around -18c to -20c. We're a hardy bunch, 20 people turned out. Ok, The Toronto Film Shooters is a Facebook group of film photography nerds from and near Toronto and is the unofficial home the Classic Camera Revival Podcast. I learned my lesson last year with super cold weather and cameras, only ones with vertical copal shutters get used in this case for this walk my black Nikon FM along with one roll of Tri-X I pushed to 1600 ISO. I'm breaking this up into three posts because there are so many good photographs. Camera: Nikon FM, Nikkor Ai 50 f1.4 lens. Film: Kodak Tri-X pushed to 1600, HC110 B.

If Toronto has Queen St., I would consider James St. in Hamilton its relative equivelent. I never walked up James St. northward, I do want to do it again, preferably on a less a grey day, and with colour film. Nikon F4, Nikkor Ais 50 f1.4 lens. Film: Kodak Tri-X 400 pushed to 1600, HC110 B.