Bill Smith's Photography

 The August Long Weekend was a nice one for photography, had a great frugal film roll, I also packed my chrome Nikkormat EL and shot some recently expired and refridgerator stored Kodak Ektar 100. I'm really pleased with the results.  The Nikkormat EL was a precurser of what's to come in the world of Nikon, it begat the FE, FE2, FM3A by exension the FA, a well engineered prosumer camera with aperture priority. The only real downside is the 6SR44 battery that's housed under the mirror box, and you have to go through the mirror box to replace the lens. Otherwise, a really solid camera that's fun to shoot with.  Camera: Nikkormat EL, Nikkor Pre Ai lenses.  Film: Kodak Ektar 100. 

What I like about photowalks with the Toronto Film Shooters Facebook Group is a chance to explore the city outside what I'm familiar life. We walked the Beaches a lot over the years, and the walk from the Riverdale locaion of the Rooster and going trough Riverdale Park into Cabbagetown. A true east end walk has never been done, well, time to change that. The late May photowalk route started at Riverdale Perk Coffeehouse on Logan and we went from Riverdale to Danforth Village by way of Little India. Another reason why I like exploring the city is, I don't plan on staying in Oakville and I want to move into the city and would rather be outside the downtown core in one of the neighbourhoods.  The camera of choice was one of my Nikon F3's, the black titanium version, the meter is spot on and shot my last two rolls of Kodak Portra 400. Oddly enough, they were easy to scan, the secret was not using the old Portra profiles in Vuescan instead just going generic and doing any minor ...