Bill Smith's Photography

 It was a great Labour Day long holiday weekend, my birthday continued on during the weekend. Jo-Anne and I went down to Niagara on the Lake for the day. Getting down was an adventure with all the traffic thank you to the one idiot who decided to drive 20 below the limit on the QEW in the middle lane. So much for getting up early.  Also, this will be the last month for this year's Nikkormat FTn, for a few reasons. One, the camera needs a CLA, I felt the shutter release catching on two occasions and resulted in two blank frames. Two, I'm moving in a few months and will have to move about 95% of my camera collection to my brother's place for a few months until I get through the year of chaos. The replacement camera will also be next year's camera as well and spoiler alert, it's a Nikkormat FT3, pretty much the same camera but with an Ai lens mount and is couple of years younger. It will be make its debut for the October installment, stay tuned.  Niagara On The Lake is...

  Never shot medium format in Niagara on the Lake before either in colour or black and white. Oh wow! In some ways the perfect camera for puttering around Niagara on the Lake on a nice spring day is either a twin lens reflex camera or a rangefinder. But medium format colour, I'm still dealing with blown mind looking at these scans.   Camera: Rolleiflex 3.5 F Planar Twin Lens Reflex.  Film: Agfa Optima 100, expired and freezer stored since 2005.  

  Tourist season in Niagara on the Lake is ramping up once May rolls around, and the streets are getting busier. It was a 100 ISO kind of day and ran with ORWO UN 54 in my OM-1md and you can't go wrong with this combination.  Camera: Olympus OM-1md, Zuiko S lenses.  Film: ORWO UN54, D76 1+1.