Bill Smith's Photography

 Been a while since I used my Mamiya C220F, a great stripped down Twin Lens Reflex camera compared to the 330F and uses the same lens system. On a bright early summer's day I loaded up some Catlabs X Film 80 because that film loves bright contrasty sunshine. The creamy rendering from Mamiya Sekor glass is something else.  Camera: Mamiya C220F Twin Lens Reflex Camera. Sekor 80 F2.8 lens, Sekor 55 F4.5 lens.  Film: Catlabs X Film 80, Ilfotec HC 1+31. 

I needed to get out of town for a few hours and spring weather this year has been all over the place, a drive up to Belfountain and Forks of the Credit was in order. My pre-order of Kosmo Mono 100 in 120 arrived this past week and I wanted to shoot a roll of that too. Of course mother nature had other ideas and the skies started to cloud over. Well, you make the best with what you have. The camera of choice was my Mamiya C220F Twin Lens Relflex and in the grand scheme of things isn't that heavy, a Nikon F4S and some lenses weighs just as much and lets not talk about a Hasselblad kit or Mamiya RB67. My reply to those thinking it's too heavy, get your no muscle toned ass to the gym. Now what I love about the Mamiya C series Twin lens reflex cameras is they have interchangeable lenses, and with the built in bellows negates the need for macro or close up lenses. If you want to grab some rolls of Kosmo Mono 100, they are well stocked on the Kosmo Foto site shop.  Camera:...

Alrighty, it's going to be +13c today and +17c Christmas Eve, a year ago we had something more along the lines of this: Camera: Nikon F3HP, Nikkor Ai 28 f2.8 lens. Film: Kodak Tri-X 400, Xtol 1+1. Camera: Mamiya C220f, Sekor 55 f4.5 lens. Film: Kodak Tmax 400, Tmax Dev. 1+4. It just feels weird being the Christmas season with it feeling like more late October out there so I went back into the archives to pull some gems I shot up in Belfountain a few years back when there was snow on the ground. Have a very merry Christmas, or an extremely belated Happy Hanukkah and all the best for a happy healthy 2016. Hopefully we'll get some winter because I want to go skiing! 

There's something about the perfect weekend by the water. Camera: Mamiya C220f, Sekor 55 f4.5 lens. Film: Ilford HP5 400, HC 110 B.

I last walked Harbourfront a couple years back on a warm Saturday night in late July before an Oakville Camera Club outing to shoot the Toronto Skyline from Centre Island, it was a great walk and got some great images. It was a great idea at the time, while I got in town early, OCC members arrived closer to the meet up time, Taylor Swift was playing the Air Canada Centre and normal parking rates tripled to event prices. Ok, a small irritant, we got the ferry docks and noticed hordes of people coming off, I did not connect the dots. Once our group got to Centre Island we quickly realized there not not one but two South Asian Cultural Festivals and the there were easy 50,000 people on the island. We got our skyline shots and around 9:30 decided it was time to head back to the mainland. Not so fast, the line up for ferry stretched from the Centre Island Terminal to about the beach on the south side of the Island. We got on the boat at around midnight, my feet touched mainland around ...

Long before Toronto's condominium boom, southwest of Union Station where The Rogers Centre (I still call it the Skydome) used to be switching yards for CN and CP's passenger rail rolling stock. One of the locomotive roundhouses remains today as home for Steamwhistle Brewing, a Railway museum and a furniture store. Further west, large condo developments going from abandoned land to New York's Battery Park City in the space of a decade. I haven't been this way in a long time, I've been to the Toronto Railway Museum's outdoor exhibit's in the past but not further west of the Roger's Centre. This was part of a dry run for an Oakville Camera Club outing later this month along Harbourfront. Camera: Mamiya C220f, Sekor 55 f4.5 lens, 80 f2.8 lens. Film: Ilford HP5 400, HC110 B. (last image Fuji Neopan Acros 100).