All the while there is talk but little action on transit in Toronto.
Canon P rangefinder, 35mm/2.5 Voigtlander Color Skopar,
Rollei Retro 80S film developed in Rodinal 1+50 14 minutes @ 20 C.
Category: 35mm
Ageless
For this image of mature trees in High Park, I used my Canon P rangefinder from the early 1960’s, my Canon Serenar 50mm/1.8 lens from 1951, and developed the Tri-X film I used in Pyrocat-HD, a developer based on a 100+ year old formulation. For something as ageless as a forest it seemed appropriate. 🙂
A New Lease on Life
One of my favourite lenses is my early 1960’s Russian-built Helios 44/2 58mm lens, with an obscure lens mount: a 39mm thread mount, not meant for Leica for a specific model of Zenit SLR’s. The lens is amazing, but I’ve had horrible luck with the bodies in terms of longevity. I found a lens mount adapter from China on eBay for six bucks that I originally got mount the lens on my Pen F half-frame, but I realized I could use on on Canon EOS mount cameras as well. At “The Big One” film camera sale last weekend I was able to pick up a Canon Rebel G body in perfect shape for $15, and this lens has a new home :-). The image below was taken the same day I got the camera body
Shot on Rollei RPX film, developed in Rodinal 1+50
Mixing It Up
Most portraits are vertically oriented (hence the term “portrait orientation”). But it is fun to mix things up now and then. Here is another image of my photographer friend Suzanne. To show as much of the Helios 44/2 lens’s optical character (namely the swirl with the lens wide open) I felt the portrait needed to be horizontal.
Zenit 3M 35mm SLR with Helios 44/2 58mm/2 lens
Ilford FP4+ developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9 minutes @ 20 C
Diffusion and toning added in post
Connie #2
Another image from my recent shoot with Connie Crosby, this one taken with my Pen F Half frame, 50mm/1.4 Pentax M lens (via adapter) shot on Rollei Retro 80S. A Go-To portrait combo!
Irony
Last Saturday both the Gardiner Expressway and Lakeshore Blvd. were studies in gridlock. At the same time, the main hall of Union Station was rather quiet. The irony was not lost on me.
Voigtlander Bessa R Rangefinder, 15mm/4.5 Super-Heliar lens
Tri-X developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9 minutes @ 20 C
The Atlas Coal Mine Never Ends …
Well after today, perhaps. here are three images from my final roll shot at this fascinating location outside of Drumheller, Alberta. All images taken with my Voigtlander Bessa R and 15mm/4.5 Super-Heliar lens, on Tri-X developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9 minutes @ 20 C
Low Sun
Writing this on a cloudy Saturday morning, I am thinking back to a very sunny Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago at the Beaches. I love the early morning angle of the sun! This is cropped from the original half-frame image, as someone edged into frame at the last minute.
Olympus Pen F, 100mm/3.5 Zuiko lens
Rollei RPX 25 film developed in Rodinal 1+50, 11 minutes @ 20 C
One More from the Distillery District
This is one more image from the Distillery District: another view of one of the old pick-ups that is on display, slowing decaying.
Olympus Pen F, Pentax-M 50mm/1.4 lens used via adapters.
Shot on Rollei RPX 25 film developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 11 minutes @ 20 C
On the Water
From a couple of weeks back, on a Beaches morning so bright, the people on the boards are almost lost in the sun.
Olympus Pen F, 100mm/3.5 Zuiko lens
Rollei RPX 25 film developed in Rodinal 1+50 11 minutes @ 20c
My Third Eye 