Bill Smith's Photography

 This has been a winter, sadly I haven't been on my skis once, and I'm going to take this season off, which is sad due to the huge dump of snow this past month or so, and it's been consistantly cold, amazing ski weather, and I'm on the injured roster, a sprained hip flexor. Can't ski but I can walk and walking has been good to loosen things up. I'm going to hit the gym again soon to start to rebuild strengh.  I walked around my neighbourhood with my black Rollei 35S, and a roll of Bergger Pancro 400 and it helped me loosen up the problematic left hip flexor. Walking around was good, sitting for long periods of time bad, and twisting the wrong way even worse. Throw in multiple dumps of snow, winter photography in North Toronto changes everything.  There are days I wonder if the Rollei 35 is the perfect group photo walk camera. It's super light, the optics, be it Tessar, Xenar or Sonnar are amazing, and you have any focal length as long as it's 40mm, which...

My town through the month of October..... The Rollei 35 S totally rocks, that is all. Camera: Rollei 35 S, 40 f2.8 Zeiss Sonnar Lens. Film: Kodak Max 400.

Two things, Rollei 35's are addictive little cameras, I couldn't just have one. I traded in my Olympus OM-4 and a Nikkor AF-D Telephoto zoom lens for a Made in Singapore Rollei 35 S with the 40 f2.8 Zeiss Sonnar lens. Oh boy, these photos are sharp as all get out. Instead of shooting black and white I rolled with Kodak Color Plus 200. To expand on my comments on shooting a Rollei 35 regardless the lens it has. They can be fiddly cameras to load because you load from right to left because of the left handed film advance. This may or may not be a problem for you. The other thing these cameras are over 45 years old so unless they have been overhauled recently, don't expect the meters to work or be accurate when they do, but that's what Sunny 16 and a smart phone light meter app is for if you really want to travel light. While shooting this test roll I shot Color Plus 200 at 100 ISO and I think the photos look far superior than what I did back in August during my stay in...