In Russia a century ago, colorphotos were created that gives you a amazing feeling like it was done recently. My friend Richard posted this link on Facebook, and I though it so amazing that I felt compelled to post here! :)

Russia a century ago

I’ve started a new photography site to show more thoughts and images, not so focused on technique. The webaddress is manualphoto.com

It is also an attempt to develop a different but simple WordPress-theme. Dualcolumn with articles and image portfolio, comments in Fancybox.

Rob has written a good post to read, about M42-lenses, on Brian Auers Epic Edit-blog. He uses the same DSLR as me, the Canon EOS 350D (mine is on it’s last breath). Like Rob I have used the Pentacon 29mm/2.8 and think it’s an underrated lens. I sold it some time ago though.

My current M42 lenses, which I like:

• Asahi Super-Takumar 85mm/1.9
• Asahi Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm/1.8
• Asahi Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5
• MC Helios 44-3 58mm/2
• Auto Yashinon-DX 50mm/1.7
• Tele-Tokina 105mm/2.8
• Pentacon Auto 50mm/1.8

I got a newsletter from pentaxforum stating that they now have all pentax lenses ever produced in their database. You might want to check it out :) They are missing photos of a few, so maybe you can help them out.

I’ve started a group at Ipernity for Drawings and paintings – welcome to join if you want. I know – a bit outside the scope of this site about photography and cameras, but this work is a big thing for my photography. From the beginning I am a painter and I get a lot of my ideas, composition, feeling, inspiration from the history of art and from my own work. I think it is a good thing – an image is an image and people have been creating them since long before the photography of today.

Here you see a slideshow of my album with drawings and paintings.

On film photography
A while back a got a mail from Brian where he told me about a new blog, a film photography blog. I think it looks god, but overwhelmed with work I have not had time to check it out thouroughly. A task for this weekend. Hope you’ll pay Feeling Negative? a visit too.

And more…
I have a new site in production myself, a place where you’ll be able to create a blog of your own :) But it’s not quite finished for viewing yet.

Something I believe peope should study more is the master of photography, or arthistory in general. I can’t say I’m an expert on the history of photography myself, but I have an interest and have studied arthistory as a student, which included some photography. Get inspiration from the Internet:

• The user PhotographyMasters has a lot of interesting things to look at.
• Rangefindergeneral has a film on Diane Arbus.
• If you feel a need for a timeline Photo.net has one
• Robert Leggat has made site with information about early photography
• And there’s always the linklist from Witcombe, a resource I used a long time
• You might also find a lot of places who sell prints and stuff, like

If you have tips, please post a comment with the link :)

I have started to publish wallpapers shot with manual lenses on our swedish development site, http://designbilder.se/desktop. The first one out is a pictures from the lake the other day, a tree with fog. If you have suggestion for backgrounds let me know :)

Don’t forget to check out the wallpapers here on Retrocamera, with cameras and lenses.

I have started two user Ipernity groups for Yashica and Takumar on the community (Ipernity reminds of Flickr, bur a little bit different and for more documenttypes). I see it mostly as another place to meet people who like this old crap lenses ;) Building the network… But I also got the feeling that Ipernity is more for serious discussions, Flickrs has become a bit of fishing for awards and nice comments and almost noone writes critique. Anyway, welcome to join the groups at Ipernity!:

The Takumar-group and the Yashica-group.

• How to de-yellow an old lens
  A youtube film where a guy clears the glass in a yellowed Super-Takumar lens.
• Retrothing-blog on Voigtländers new medium format cam
  Retrothing is a great blog writing on different retrothings – games, cameras, vehicles, grammophones etc. Here they write about the Voigtkänder Bessa III.
• Alessandros photoblog
  Lots of food photography, both in italian and english.
• Free to use Camera Images
  A nice archive which it seems is free to use in webdesign.
• Masters of photographgy on Youtube
  One of several of these on youtube, good for some quick inspiration I think.