Taking a Canon to a War Memorial
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 3:51 am
Over the Easter weekend the autumn weather was being nice and welcoming, unlike the following week where the heavens opened (one part of the city got 70mm of rain in one hour, 100mm in two hours!). Glorious, fine, calm autumn weather. So I grabbed the Canon FTb along with the 35mm f3.5 and 100mm f2.8 lenses and headed into the city on the bike.
Being autumn, the sun was at the right angle to give some nice dramatic shadows across the front of the main building. Once I'd finished working with the light and shadows casting themselves across the pillars, I wandered round the rest of the surrounding area.
These frames were shot on Ilford FP4, developed in PC-TEA 1+50 for 12 minutes. This PC-TEA was the last bottle I had left from a batch I mixed up in 2013, showing its excellent keeping properties. Scanned with the Panasonic G9.
The FTb is a lovely piece of kit, usually much cheaper than the many of the other FD mount Canons. Mine is the first version, solidly built and much, much nicer (for me at least) to use than the AE-1 I had used some time ago.
Being autumn, the sun was at the right angle to give some nice dramatic shadows across the front of the main building. Once I'd finished working with the light and shadows casting themselves across the pillars, I wandered round the rest of the surrounding area.
The FTb is a lovely piece of kit, usually much cheaper than the many of the other FD mount Canons. Mine is the first version, solidly built and much, much nicer (for me at least) to use than the AE-1 I had used some time ago.