Bill Smith's Photography

 Took a walk down Spadina from Sussex Avenue to Graination to document Spadina Ave. from University of Toronto to the south end of Chinatown. I had a sweet spot with camera, lenses and film along with a beautiful afternoon. Of course after Graination, a stop into Sonic Boom to do some record shopping. I chose one of my Nikon F2AS bodies along with ORWO UN 54, like having to rolls in a tank for processing so this was the companion to the one I shot through my Leica IIIG in the previous blog post. This roll in particular is the first one I scanned using Silverfast 9 as my scanner interface.  Scanning software for those of us who don't scan with a digital camera and Negative Lab Pro is our godsend. Outside the manufacturer's interface, it's either Vuescan or Silverfast that will be your interface of choice. Vuescan is great software, and I'm keeping it for scanning documents which I have to do on occasion, it's sort of a well thought out "Jack of All Trades" ...

 Wandered down into Davisville Village along Yonge Steet a few weeks ago, been a while since I used my Leica IIIG which is the most usable of Barnack era screwmounts. Yes loading is still a pain in the ass, but the viewfinder had frames for both 50 and 90mm lenses and is much bigger than the IIIf.  This roll is one of those "one lens and body" exercise and believe me, sometimes you just want to simplify things. Worked for Henri Cartier Bresson.  I wasn't happy with the scans on this roll,  Hammrick Software pushed out a recent update for Vuescan, usually thing are great, that said, every once in a while, the update goes off into the weeds. These were the best case scenario. In the end, I'm keeping Vuescan for document scanning, which I do a fair amount of and software works great for that. I wound up downloading Silverfast 9 and at the start of a long journey to master it.  Camera: Leica IIIG, Voigtlander 50 F2.5 Color Skopar lens.  Film: ORWO UN 54, Ilfote...