Bill Smith's Photography

 Sounds counter intuitive, sometimes, on rainy days, it's the best time to use colour film. Our walk started at Graination Lab on Spadina and we headed north, through Chinatown, Baldwin Village, and later the St. George Campus of University of Toronto, with the destination being the Annex. I'm starting to wonder if I ran out of luck with nice weather on my photowalks, while wet weather makes for beautiful photos, it really can suck to walk in...... Camera: Nikon SP Rangefinder, Nikkor S 50 F1.4 lens, W35 F2.5 lens.  Film: Fuji Superia, processed by Burlington Camera. 

 My dad owned a Leica IIIG, I remember him shooting with it back when I was a toddler, then it went into a camera bag and sat for decades. Dad's IIIG went to my brother Alex a few weeks before dad died, I got the Leica M3 and Nikon F. I tried Alex's IIIG and made an utter mess with loading the camera and got one frame on a roll of film with 36 exposures. I stuck with my M3 and M4-2 much easier to load.  Earlier this spring I picked up a Leica IIIF, and shot two rolls through it, I got a lot better at loading a Barnack Leica. Then I wanted a IIIG, even set up a search on EBay but my preference was to find something locally and already serviced. Well.......Facebook Marketplace delivered, a local seller here in Oakville was looking to sell his early production IIIG that was recently overhauled by Kanto Camera in Japan. Everything checked out with this test roll and oh wow! Leica nailed with the last of the Barnacks!  Camera: Leica IIIG, Voigtlander 50 F2.5 Color Skopar Lens....