Bill Smith's Photography

Haven't shot much with my M3 of late, even less with colour film. Part of it is the camera is a family heirloom so I tend to shoot with it close to home. Now I wanted to shoot colour and was curious how Elektra 100 from Flic Film, again I was using a vintage 50 F2 Summicron and a much younger Voightlander 35 F2.5 Color Skopar lens. Oh damn Elektra renders so well!  Camera: Leica M3 DS, 50 F2 Collapsible Summicron Lens, 35 F2.5 Voightlander Color Skopar Lens.  Film: Flic Film Elektra 100. 

 I really needed a day trip the day after mom's funeral so Jo-Anne and I hopped into the car and drove up to Elora for the day. What usually took an hour became a bit of a challenge with construcion on both Trafalgar Road through Hillsborough and along Highway 6 throuh the north end of Guelph on the return trip to Oakville.  The camera of choice was my dad's Leica M3, haven't used it in a while and I wanted to travel light. I chose Adox CHS 100 II as my film for this day trip, hindsight, I should have ran with something a bit more abusable like Ilford FP4. I had some frame that just came out underexposed, and its classified as user error. Adox CHS 100 II is great film but you have to be very much on the ball when it comes to exposure from personal experience if you want the best results.  Camera: Leica M3 DS, 50 F2 Collapsable Summicron, Voightlander 35 F2.5 Color Skopar Lens.  Film: Adox CHS 100 II, FX-39 1+19.  ...

  Finally picked up a Canon 7 Rangefinder to go with my P (Populiare) and my modest screwmount lens kit.  Everyone's first thought is, why not get a Nikon SP rangefinder. Well, SP's aren't cheap and this Canon 7 clocked in at about $300 delivered to my door. It was in great shape, the meter even works and is pretty accurage for a 60 year old selenium meter which usually is dead on arrival. The ergonomics are pretty intuitive, you can switch the frame lines via a dial on top and the really the only drawback is the lack of a hot shoe. Canon ran with a rather unique attachment for a flash that was on the left side of the camera.  All that aside the camera is a dream to shoot with, and you have access to all that Leica screw mount glass floating around out there without having a nervous break down trying to load a Barnack Leica.  I chose a roll of Kosmo Mono 100 and decided to give FX-39 a try as a developer, wow, I got contrasty negs. have a few year I want to print at ...