I made a little film about Yashica J-7 and Yashinon-Dx 50mm/1.7 :) I’m quite new to Youtube so forgive possible loss in imagequality.

Yashinon-DX 50mm/1.7 review.

Just a little note, I sold a picture today for a tv-commercial. 400€. Shot with aus Jena Sonnar 135mm Zebra, an eastgerman lens from the 60’s for which I payed £10 :) You don’t need the newest technology to work with pictures.

Carl Zeiss aus Jena Sonnar 135mm/3.5

I as previously mentioned I visited classic motor faair in my home town last saturday, and there this Citroën 2CV cought my attention. The place was crowdede and I had a range of manual primes with me, so no time to take notes and no zooming. But a nice little series anyway, a retrocar on Retrocamera ;) This is a special version with one engine in back and one in front.

Windshield of this Citroen

Another view of this Citroen

Citroen front from side

Citroen headlights

Tire strap

Jim claims film is dead
Jim was writing the other day that film is dead. But I’m not so sure. Small cameras shops and filmprocessing haven’t really been around here in Swedens smaller towns for a while, and interest is still catching on with young people. I have no proof of that, just a feeling when discussing on the internet and watching price-development for used filmcameras in Sweden.

Good post though, Jim – interesting reading.

New 120mm film
Kodak is releasing the Ektar-film in 120mm format. Wow, that is great news I think. Just to think that there is still film for my old bellow Agfa Isolette makes me happy :)

By the way…, I’m no filmfanatic, I love digital too ;)

Ripped film

I want to a Classic motor fair with my father last weekend. To my surprise they had a lot of old cameras. A shame I couldn’t afford to buy, only got some pictures. The exhibition was quit dark so a lot of images turned out with motion blur.

Camera collection 1

Some Yashicas on the table

Full table

They also had some nice cars, hear headlights of a Citroen (I think?).

Citroen headlights

In a trip to Granbergsdal with friends I made the images of pidgins with the Asahi Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5. The black and white was converted in Photoshop and the little grain came from a layer with scanned T-Max 400 imported in photoshop and put on this digital image.

Pidgins on rooftop

Went for a winterwalk near my home in Sweden with Yashica MC  Zoom 35-70mm/3.5-4.5 in the weekend, shooting pictures of the winter landscapes. Some of the photos:

Winter landscape photographed with Yashica Zoom

Winter pine with Yashica Zoom

Just some happy statistics for Retrocamera.net, these are the browsers you visitors prefer :)

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I’m writing on a bunch of new lensreviews, keep a lookout ;)

Takumars are often great wonder of quality, and so are normals like this Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8. My most used lenses are the normal primes (around 50mm) so naturally I wanted a Takumar of some sort in the normal range since I collect them. I managed to find an auction with some great stuff…

S-M-C Takumar 55mm f1.8 M42

The purchase
I got this on swedish ebay in a package with a lot of stuff. There was this Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm/1.8 lens and then:

• Asahi Pentax Spotmatic SLR in great condition
• Tele-Tokina 105mm/f2.8 lens which turned out to be really rare
• Soligor 35mm/3.5 which I sold
• Gossen Sixtar lightmeter
• big Braun 370 BVC flash I can’t get to work (corroded batteries)
• filters and accessories

All for about $40 and then shipping. I think that was a good price. Some of the items are now sold, I keep the ones I use.

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