I’ve been taking pictures of another lens Richard sent me, the Mir-1V 37mm/2.8. It is an M42 so I put it on the Zenit ET and then the Canon EOS 300V (SLR) with an adapter.

Mir-1V on Zenit ET

Mir-1V on Canon EOS 300V

Mir-1V M42-lens Canon EOS 300V

Got a couple of russian lenses from Richard and now I have spent some time taking photographic portraits of them. More to come ;)

Industar 50-2

A couple of takumar-lenses used in the darkness of the night in this photographs. The first with Asahi Opt.Co. Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5 and the second Auto-Takumar 85mm/1.8, both on Canon EOS 350D.

Parkinglot shot with Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5

House shot with Auto-Takumar 85mm/1.8

Yesterday I sold my Asahi Opt.Co. Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 300mm/f4. Needed the money and was my most valuable lens but the one I used the least. It was sold on swedish ebay “Tradera” for estimated $230.

Asahi S-M-C Takumar 300mm/4

Just a nice little portrait of one favorite lens, the Asahi Opt.Co. Auto-Takumar 85mm/1.8. As usual the Spotmatic acts cameramodel for the Asahi-lenses (since I need the DSLR to create the image ;) ).

Asahi Auto-Takumar 85mm f1.8 on Pentax Spotmatic

From Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8 also.

Losenhausenwerk with Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8

Handles

Short update on the progress of YashicaForum.com: we reached 500 posts today. We are now 42 users. Yesterday I linked from the Yashica @ WikiPedia and Yashica @ CameraPedia, hope more Yashica enthusiast will find us.

Yesterday I went to the factory industrial museum here in Garphyttan and took the Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8 with me. I had to shoot with very large aperture due to the low lights in the room (and I had no tripod or flash with me). Many images were blurry, but some ok – this is the first of the photos I run through Photoshop

Steelfactory gear in Garphyttan