Bill Smith's Photography

 The Classic Camera Revival podcast hosted it's 10th anniversary photo walk, my friend John Roberts flew in from Vancouver for the weekend, I wanted to show him a bit of Toronto and after stopping off at Graination for a film top up, Harbourfront made the most sense.  Summer up to the last two weeks of August was silly hot thanks to a heat dome which gave us Miami in July temperatures, South Florida can have its weather back thank you very much. We rode on a short turning 510 streetcar and got off a Queens Quay then walked along the pier running parallel to the Music Garden.  We worked our way east until the heavens decided to open up around York Quay, John and I hopped a Union Station bound 510 Street Car as the rain picked up steam. I can't begin to describe how muggy the weather was.  Haven't shot with the Canon New F-1 AE in a bit, and I wanted to put the FDn 35 F2 through its paces. Yeah, this lens is worth every penny. I do have  a bit of a hate on for the...

  The film photography world is an intimate one, particulary in the podcasting community. My friend Brandy, former co-host of Film Photo Geeks was in town as her partner had meetings downtown. We started out at Dineen Coffee at Yonge and Temperance, made our way over to Downtown Camera and later up to Riverdale, then ending up at Allen's on the Danforth for probably the best hamburger in the city. The secret if you are visiting Toronto, get out of the downtown core and head into the neighbourhoods.  I wound up using three lenses with the M2, the dual range 50 F2 Summicron which is an amazing lens, I also used the 90 F2.8 Skopar and 28 F2.8 Skopar lenses from Voigtlander. Truthfully Voigtlander glass can go toe to toe with Leica lenses any day of the week. I bought the 28 F2.8 Skopar for my M5 specfically because the Light Lens Lab 9 element 28 F2.8 would damage the M5's light meter sensors.  Camera: Leica M2, 50 f2 DR Summicron, 28 F2.8 Voigtlander Skopar Lens, 90 F2.8 Vo...