Tag: SMC Pentax 50mm f/1.4
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Walking Into The Weekend
It is a significant improvement, but not a solution. As you might have seen in two previous posts, I’ve been having trouble with Flic Film’s C-41 “Eco” kit. Chatting back and forth with some kind people online, it seems like this particular kit can be a little fussy with a few oddball emulsions like, *ahem*,…
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Sunny Saturday Summer Solstice
The weather on the longest-day-of-the-year was quite nice! Bright, sunny, and not too hot, we headed out of a lil’ local loop in advance of errands. As a bit of a palate cleanser, I decided to record the day’s adventures on Ilford FP4+. We didn’t plan for a daytime adventure because some friends of our…
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Ottawa Street Blues (cont’d)
With that morning’s photographic misstep in mind, when I loaded a new roll on that roasty-toasty corner, I double- triple-checked that the camera was properly set for the film speed and that it was on ‘1x’ (normal). Having run out of Ottawa Street, we boarded the Barton bus back to the downtown. Following a leisurely…
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Ottawa Street Blues
The nice weather we experienced on Thursday continued into Friday, so that meant our little trip to Ottawa Street! What brought us to this strip in the Crown Point neighbourhood was, well, fabric stores. Kathleen’s main hobby is sewing (there is a 90% chance on any given day that either one or both of us…
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One to Keep and One Rained Out (cont’d)
Our walk through Roncesvalles was deliberate. We had just been through for a little browsie-boo on Sunday, after all. We had one more shopping goal for the day, and that was Little Ghosts Books on Dundas West, so hopping on the Dundas car was a good way to get there. I loaded this roll of…
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One to Keep and One Rained Out (cont’d)
Of course it’s not really surprising that we were in a walking mood. Queen West (and most of East, for that matter) is quite visually interesting and there are many interesting shops and, perhaps save for the Somerset West-Wellington-Richmond corridor, nothing really like it here. So we continued to walk, chatter, laugh, make photos, stop…