We spent some time this weekend in Leslieville, an up-and-coming trendy neighbourhood of Toronto, where this little lamp (hanging in a restaurant) caught my eye. I tilted the camera way back and tried to hold it steady to get this shot, which was something like 1/15th at f/8.

This roll of film was the first to go through my Yashicamat after a pricey repair (the film advance mechanism had died on me). Looks like the repair worked — the camera felt silky-smooth and was as silent as ever. I hope to spend more time with the Yashicamat this summer.

Taken on Neopan Acros, developed in Instant Mytol 1+1 (8′ at 22C). (My first roll of Acros — so far, I like it a lot.)

Another view from Ward’s Island last weekend. This was taken with the Zenobia 6×4.5 folding camera (Japanese, ca. 1952-5) — a fun machine I wrote often about on the old version of Photosensitive. The Zenobia uses scale focus — you use an external rangefinder, or a lucky guess, to estimate the subject distance, and then dial it in on the lens distance scale. The camera has a simple viewfinder that can be used for framing. Film advance (red window) and exposure, of course, are both manual.

For this shot I used Arista.EDU Ultra 200 film (re-badged Fomapan 200 sold by Freestyle Photo in L.A.), developed in Rodinal 1+50. The scans from my Epson flatbed were massive (38 MB for the raw grayscale scan — gotta love medium format!) but a little soft, and required some sharpening in PS.