As part of my gear rationalization project I traded away my Voigtlander 15mm/4.5 (not without some regret) and as part of the deal got a Nikkor AI-S 20mm/2.8 lens in return. It arrived this week and I had a chance to put it through its paces this morning. I think this lens and I well get along fine. 🙂
Entrance to Dupont Subway station, Toronto
Nikon FM, 20mm/2.8 Nikkor lens
Svema Foto 100 film,
developed in LegacyPro Eco Pro Ascorbic acid developer
The light in Toronto this January has not been dazzling; even this mainly overcast day was brighter than most. The location is the vintage train yard beside the Steamwhistle Brewing Company location in Toronto.
Nikon N90, Tamron SP 17mm/3.5 lens
Fuji Velvia 50 film
I had never gotten around to shooting this arch before; I will have to go back and try a few different angles with it. I suspect the perfect angle would involve me standing the the middle of a busy intersection. Not safe in this city.
Nikon F4S, 17mm/3.5 Tamron SP lens
Svema Foto 100 film,Â
developed in LegacyPro Eco Pro Ascorbic Acid Developer
1+1, 9;20 @ 20 C
Back to the early morning Beaches role of slide film for one more image.
Nikon N90s, Velvia 50 E6 slide film
My new (to me) Nikon F4 body arrived this week, so I now have one to replace the one that was stolen. I went out yesterday, despite the gloomy light to shoot a test roll. I did’t have any 400 speed film so I shot a roll of Svema Foto 100, which made for some very slow shutter speeds handheld, but thankfully wide-angle lenses such as the Tamron SP 17mm/3.5 I was shooting are more forgiving. 🙂
On another dreary winter day in Toronto, with a dull light that just sucks the enthusiasm right out of me, it was nice to pick up a roll of colour slide film that I had sent in for processing.
Nikon N90s, 105mm/2.5 AI lens.
Fuji Velvia 50 Slide film
One final image from this series of the W.H. Harris Water Treatment Plant. The grey dull day seemed to align with the austere nature of the building.
Nikon N90s, 17mm/3.5 Tamron SP lens
Kentmere 400 film
Another image from a foggy day at the Beaches on Saturday. I was struck by this scene of a family in the distance looking out at the fog.
Nikon N90s, 105mm/2.5 Nikkor AI lens
Kentmere 400 film
Yesterday was a foggy day at the Beaches. I was shooting with my  Nikon N90s and Nikkor 105mm/2.5 (replacing the one that was stolen). The film was an old expired roll of Ultrafine Xtreme 400 I had lying around and the result was grainier than I would have liked, but perhaps for the fog the effect works.
Today I’m posting one more image from Bluffer’s Beach on January 1st, 2017. It was originally shot in black and white (the only film I had with me), but the image really didn’t work that way, so I added so hand tinting with pencil crayons to a inkjet print.
Nikon F2, 28mm/2.8 Nikkor lens
JCH StreetPan 400 @ E.I. 320
developed in HC-110 dilution B for 5 minutes @ 20 C
Hand-tinted print
My Third Eye 