Bill Smith's Photography

  Nikon F2's are workhorses in my collection, The one I used here I got in a trade when I wanted to rehome an early Canon F-1 I wasn't using. Yes I have multiple F2 Photomics, sue me, well, this one went out on loan to Alex Luykx for his Youtube review on it . I got it back and shot a roll of Tri-X until it jammed at frame 22, thank you to a broken spring assembly. Off to LensMedic YYC for a CLA and repair. The F2 Photomic now is smoother than butter and the results you see below. Camera: Nikon F2 Photomic, Nikkor Pre Ai lenses.  Film: Rollei RPX 400, Rollei Supergrain developer 1+15. 

It's my first anniversary buying my condo in Toronto and Mount Pleasant Road is my main street. For those outside of Toronto, it starts just south of Bloor St. as a branch off Jarvis St. and ends at Glen Echo Road before Hoggs Hollow.   I generally say I live in Midtown Toronto, depending who you talk to, I am in the north end of Mount Pleasant West and a few blocks south of Sherwood Park. I chose this neighbourhood because everything I need if the weather really turns to shit, is at most, a six block walk away. My local, the Granite Brewery is a couple blocks walk south of me, and I'm spoiled for choice in terms of coffee shops.  Many ways the opposite of Oakville where I had to get in car to do everything.  What about parks? I'm a short stroll from the Sherwood Park Ravine, which onee you are in the valley, go east, you wind up in the Sunnybrook Ravine and by extension the Don River watershed, walk northwest, you walk into the Blythwood Ravine which will take you e...