The first of a couple more images from my Canon P rangefinder with my Voigtlander 35mm/2.5 Color Skopar lens. While I was in the Lower Don Valley about 10 days ago a homeless person was walking in the same direction. Shooting him from the back felt like the better thing to do.
Shot on Rollei Retro 80S film, developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 14 minutes @ 20 C
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.
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. 🙂
This image was taken last weekend in a graveyard in southeastern Toronto. I took it with my Rolleiflex using Tmax 40o film, and then because of the extreme contrast of the lighting spent some time playing around with the negative scan, and the result I like the best has an old look to it.
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
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
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
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
Another Olympus Pen half Frame image from last Saturday in the distillery district. This is the front of the other pick-up truck that is gracefully decaying in the area.
Olympus Pen F 35mm half-frame camera, Pentax-M 50mm/1.4 lens mounted via an adapter.
Shot on Rollei RPX 25 film developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 11 minutes @ 20 C
Yesterday I took part in an all day choral workshop as a member of the Exultate Chamber Singers, as we began preparing for our 2015-2016 season. The workshop took place in Toronto’s Distillery District, so at lunch I went out with my Olympus Pen F camera, with a Pentax M 50mm/1.4 lens, mounted via an $8 adapter to a Canon EOS to Olympus Pen adapter. Not nearly as cumbersome as it sounds, and coupled with a sharp fine-grained film such as the Rollei RPX 25 I think the combination works.
My Third Eye 