Bill Smith's Photography

 A day trip to the Toronto Islands is a mini vacation, sadly when you get to the Ward's Island Ferry Dock, returning to reality is a bit jarring. Especially when you see the hordes of people trying to get to the Islands in the afternoon. The Toronto Islands themselves have two remnents of a much bigger commmunity that was pushed out in the 1950s when the newly minted Met...

The best time to visit the Toronto Islands during the Summer is in the middle of the week, and before school was out for the year. The secret is get to the ferry terminal earlier in the morning. Other than that, the Toronto Islands is a magical place. I find it's a mini holiday from reality. 

I made the wise choice with one of my Olympus OM-2n's, the black one and ...

I always use Rollei Supergrain developer with Fomapan film stocks,  there were three rolls of Fomapan 200 Creative to be processed, let's roll with 510 Pyro and see what we get. With the 1+100 dilution, this developer was a no brainer for three rolls of 35mm film, or two rolls of 120 in one of the bigger Patterson Tanks. 

Um, wow, a really nice set of sharp ne...

 I haven't shot with my Minolta XE-7 since my move to Toronto two years ago. It was between the SRT series of cameras Minolta had in their line up, fully mechanical with CLC metering which was quite advanced for the day and above it, the far ahead of its time pro body XK/M while a brilliant pro body, was a sales failure. The XE-7 however had a market with advanced amateu...

 I didn't intend to add another OM-1 to my Olympus collection, sometimes I wonder if I'm running a camera rescue with this particular camera. Dave Smith, the former Darkroom Chair at the Toronto Club runs the Used Camera Donations and Sales committee emailed me. Ariel the current darkroom chair had an emergancy and couldn't volunteer during the club open house with used ...