Bill Smith's Photography

 Every other weekend starts on platform three at the Oakville GO Train Station and ends Sunday after lunch with a walk back home from the GO station. What happens in between goes by way too quick..... Camera: Rollei 35, Schneider Xenar 40 F3.5 lens.  Film: Kosmo Mono 100, D76 1+1. 

  Finally picked up a Canon 7 Rangefinder to go with my P (Populiare) and my modest screwmount lens kit.  Everyone's first thought is, why not get a Nikon SP rangefinder. Well, SP's aren't cheap and this Canon 7 clocked in at about $300 delivered to my door. It was in great shape, the meter even works and is pretty accurage for a 60 year old selenium meter which usually is dead on arrival. The ergonomics are pretty intuitive, you can switch the frame lines via a dial on top and the really the only drawback is the lack of a hot shoe. Canon ran with a rather unique attachment for a flash that was on the left side of the camera.  All that aside the camera is a dream to shoot with, and you have access to all that Leica screw mount glass floating around out there without having a nervous break down trying to load a Barnack Leica.  I chose a roll of Kosmo Mono 100 and decided to give FX-39 a try as a developer, wow, I got contrasty negs. have a few year I want to print at ...

 I wasn't planning to buy another Nikon F (famous last words) but Joan had a beast in the used section, a black Nikon F Photomic FTN with the F36 Motor Drive. My brother has a motor drive equiped Nikon F but I think its in chrome, can't remember. So I have this delightful beast from 1969, like it needs eight AA Batteries to move the film advance beast and weigh as much as an F5 but nowhere as ergonomic, bear in mind the beast is a year younger than I am and with the number of Nikon F's I have, I can cosplay Dennis Hopper's role as the strung out photo journalist in Apocalypse Now.  Another thing I got from Burlington Camera was a Nikkor Q 200 F4, not an expensive lens, but one that's been around since the beginning in the Nikkor lens line up. Loved by photo journalists to pull in subject matter up in close. Mounting the lens to the motor drive equiped F gave the body balance, much like attaching a zoom to your Nikon F5.  Camera: Nikon F Photomic FTN with the F36 Mot...