This weekend I have been hiking for over 12 hours in steep landscape of Kilsbergen where I live, taking photographs with most of my Yashica and Pentax-gear. A lot of pictures to sort through and aching legs to rest, but then some tests will be posted here :)

Balancing on a stone in the creek

Sure, we retronuts like to take pictures with old mechanic cameras. But this guy don’t need a camera at all

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Have a look at Stephens website.

Uhh, this one feels sharp! Just took some snapshots yesterday, no masterpieces but interesting to see the characteristics of this lens. Will have to compare with my other 50mm lenses later on.

Tree against clouds

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Maybe not the best saturation (it was a gray day, though), but sharp and very interesting bokeh. Here at f2, if I remember it correct. Today my C/Y->EOS adapter arrived, so now I can try my ML-lenses and compare. I see a test of 50mm-lenses in the not to distant future :)

Yashinon DX 50mm/1.7 berries

The other day I went in to town and tried some streetphoto. I’m not very good at photograph strangers like that, and didn’t wan’t to much attention. Therefore the little modest, functional and quite cool Minolta Hi-Matic F I got from my in-laws came really handy. Small, easy focus, some autmatic exposure, fits in one hand. Nice… I took a couple of rolls Kodak Tri-X (black and white) with this, will show results when back from lab.

Minolta Hi-Matic F

Minolta Hi-Matic F on a brake, with Coffee