On tuesday I open my exhibition with photos in Sweden. Most of them are shot with manual lenses, often shown here on Retrocamera.net

The name of the exhibition translates as “Chiaroscuro”, which sounds like a weird word to me. Sounds easier in swedish, “Ljusdunkel” ;)

Anyways, to swedish readers:
Welcome to Hantverkadboden i Wadköping Tuesday march 31:st to Sunday april 5:th, open 11:00 – 17:00 each day. You can win a photoprint… and there will be old cameras to view ;)

To international readers:
Guess you need to wait for the online version that I will try to make afterwords… if you don’t want to travel ;) Maybe I can spread the word about old cameras a bit.

Exhibition in Örebro, Sweden

The other day we had a small fair with the businessnetwork at a place which used to be a bathhouse. Now they have a lot of funny small things, like this hidden-away sculpture in a window. I think this almost naked lady with her torn bikini deserve some attention ;)

Torn bikini on lady

My father sent scans of this old brochure from his trip to Luzern in the 60′s. I like these old brochures of the time, often colourful illustrations and black and white photographs. If you have a look at Yashicaforum.com you can also find some nize Yashica-brochures posted mostly by Nesster (and some Super-8 brochures from me).

Luzern in Switzerland

Luzern brochure, page 2

Luzern, page 3

Luzern brochure, page 4

I’m almost certain this is Yashica ML 35mm/2.8 but I’m not sure since I didn’t take notes. The church is our local Nikolai church in Örebro, dating from 13th century (but this is newer). I’m very interested in history and like to shoot more of this buildings, but often I find photography is not allowed in them.

Church with Yashica 35mm

This Pentacon 50/1.8 lens my wife brought home from the fleemarket is growing on me. It cost very little together with the Praktica-camera, and was a bit smashed in the filterthreads (I fixed this brutally by forcing a broken filters ring on the front on the lens = new filterthreads). Maybe you saw the bokeh-shots? Well, here’s a tulip I shot at my wifes exhibition.

Pentacon tulip

If you have the musicservice Spotify you can listen to Paul Simons Kodachrome :) Playing in my headphones as I write this. If you don’t have Spotify, get it if you can – it’s great.

Kodachrome

We are now 120 passionate Yashicausers on Yashicaforum.com – I’m very glad I started the forum. But I wonder, why are there no forums on this domains? Maybe you should start one?:

• www.agfaforum.com
• www.voigtlanderforum.com
• www.mamiyaforum.com
• www.m42forum.com
• www.jenaforum.com

Of course these were ideas just taken on the top of my head, I’m sure you can find even better ones … or why not compete with me and start yashinonforum.com ;) Competition can be healthy.

My friend Daniel insisted I should have one of these, so I went and bought one from UK on ebay. Can you have enough of normal or short tele primes? ;) I started collecting Takumar lenses, so of course I needed the 135mm. Lets see if it’s any good…

Super Takumar 135mm/3.5, angleview

The purchase
As usual with these old manual lenses it wasn’t that much hat I payed, £8.50 + shipping £9.00. Later on I also got a hood from ebay, it need an original hood – makes a lot of difference. The hood was £7.95 + shipping £3. So if you buy a lens like this, get a hood too. Since I bought from a good seller in UK, there was no problem with shipping or the purchase. Avarage price on Pentaxforums.com is set to $38. Read the full article "Review of Asahi Super-Takuma…" »

A member on the YashicaForum posted pictures of and with this great Yashinon 55mm/1.2 lens – which makes me droooool! ;)

I really like the bokeh of many manual lenses. I gave this Pentacon (previous Meyer) a try, and loved it too. These f1.7-f2 lenses are easier to use then the f1.4 I think… it is easier to get the smooth feeling I want.

Soft thorns

Fungus wideopen