Bill Smith's Photography

I'm so glad to see the backside of 2019, it was a year that's for sure. I think 2020 is going to be a fabulous year (fingers crossed), or at least suck less than 2019. I went up skiing for the first time this season back on December 22,  took two cameras with me, the Pentax K2 for on the way up and back, and a Rollei 35 while skiing (you will have to wait for those as I'm not done with the roll). I used Ilford Delta 100 in both cameras, for now you have the results below from the Pentax. Ilford Delta 100 just shone through SMC Pentax M glass and developed smoothly in HC110 dillution B. I'm still working through a bulk roll this film I bought in 2015 or was it 2016, can't remember at this point. Camera: Asahi Pentax K2, SMC Pentax M lenses. Film: Ilford Delta 100, HC110 B.

I was up in Belfountain a few weeks ago on my way to the Caledon Ski Club for it's Annual General Meeting. Nice day, it's fall, of course I packed a camera with some colour film. I went with my Asahi Pentax K2 and Kodak Color Plus 200. The camera and film are made for each other, end of story. I've talked about this camera elsewhere, it was Pentax's top of the line K mount body in the mid 1970s until the K2DMD came along. I could not believe how jam packed Belfountain was with day trippers. It's a double edged sword, local busiensses love the sales from people stopping, the locals are however getting a little tired dealing with the hordes of day trippers. I mentioend it elsewhere, I call it he BlogTO effect. I don't hike Forks of the Credit on weekends any more because it's too busy. The real treat was photographing a couple of vintage Volkswagans that rolled through on a weekend drive. Camera: Asahi Pentax K2, SMC Pentax M 50 f1.4 lens. Film: Kodak Co...

Mid 1970s, Pentax was getting a little concerned, sales of its screw mount camera line were dropping off, M-42 was a great mount circa 1958, held its own in the mid 1960s but by 1975 was getting long in the tooth. Pentax collaborated with of all companies Zeiss Ikon to design the K mount in the late 1960s to come up with a joint lens mount The German partners decided to get out of the camera business altogether by the mid-1970s and Pentax made the K mount an open source technology. In an alternate universe if Zeiss Ikon kept making cameras, they would have K mounts but I digress. Pentax dropped onto the market three cameras, the entry level KM which was a Spotmatic F with a K-mount for all intents and purposes (want to get one at some point), the KX which had a much better meter and the top of the line K2 which had a Seiko vertical Copal shutter which was electronically controlled with the ability to do aperture priority like the Nikkormat EL Minolta XE-7 and the Olympus OM-2, Cano...