Bill Smith's Photography

  Haven't shot with Kodak Color Plus 200 in a while, so of course I had to shoot a roll while in the city. The formery cheap and cheerful colour negative film in Canada at least is only a dollar cheaper than Portra 400. I have a hard time squaring that circle but I switched to Cinestill 400D, Flic Film Elektra 100 and Lomography 100 and 400 respectively. I'm keeping Eastman Kodak going strong for colour film.  Canera wise I ran with my Nikon F2S this walk. It was made from 1973 to 1977 and a step up from the F2 Photomic, the difference being the LED meter read out, the sensors were the same Cds cells. The F2S is differentiated with the taller DP-2 prism head. I don't shoot with this particular 2 variant often. I'm reaching more for the regular photomomic and F2A or the top of the line F2SB or F2AS. That said the F2S looks cool and of course a version needs to be in my collection.  Camera: Nikon F2S, Nikkor Pre Ai lenses.  Film: Kodak Color Plus 200.  ...

  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...