Bill Smith's Photography

 The March photo walk had a decent turn out, the route is simple, we started at Graination Lab, made our way north along Spadina to Willocks. We then went east into the heart of University of Toronto St. George campus. 

I chose the Leica R6 and ran with the three lens kit. The 90 F2.8 Elmarit lens didn't really get used, I ran with the 50 F2 Summicron and the ...

 I know the snob segment of the Leica rangefinder community look down on third party glass, Light Lens Labs, makes great lenses. Voigtlander has made M mount lenses since the very late 1990s and I'm blown away with the results from 28 F2.8 Color Skopar and the 90 F2.8 APO-Skopar lenses.

The reason why I picked up the 28 F2.8 Color Skopar because I can't use the Lig...

It wasn't the nicest morning for a photowalk, various shades of grey, at least it didn't rain. I rolled with the Leica M2 and  had an opportunity to shoot with the 28 F2.8 Color Skopar lens from Voigtlander. I've said this before elsewhere, less than wonderful weather makes for great photography. Toronto was very misty in spots, thankfully while looking like...

Yup, another Leica SLR, an R5, this time. I went back and forth between the R5 and R7, when I was looking for a second "modern" R body and settled on the R5 for the battery requirement, only two SR44/Engergizer 357s vs the four the R7 required. 

The R5, like it's mechanical sibling the R6 is a distant offspring of the Leitz-Minolta partnership where ca...

 An unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon, didn't have to wear a winter jacket or wear gloves you have no idea how happy I was, as much as I like my winter photography gloves, shooting with them is more about protecting your fingers from frostbite than fine motor dexterity to work the camera controls. 

I pulled my Nikon S3 2000 Rangefinder and shot with the Nikko...