I’ve traded to get the lens Super-Takumar 85mm/1.9. I knew I would like it since it’s earlier version Auto-Takumar 85mm/1.8 was in my posession until this spring and I loved it’s bokeh and sharpness.

This lens is similar in performence but on the outside it looks very different – slimmer, the aperture setting has been moved to the back like the other Super-Takumars. I’ve haven’t really had time to test it but want to share some initial photos with you, so please check out my Flickr-set “Super-Takumar 85mm/1.9″.

A rug left in nature. I was out in the sunny weather the other day and since landscapes in harsh light is so hard to do I concentrated on the leftovers people leave in the woods.

Leafs on carpet

Leafs on carpet

Slow poster this days, I’ll try to speed up ;)

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

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

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

Thinking of selling my Super-Takumar 105mm/2.8, but I wanted to give it some photography-time in the woods first and shot this leg of ice the other day. The changing weather between cold and “warm” (well, around 0°C is warm) make some nice iceformations.

Super-Takumar 105mm/2.8 with leg of ice

This little thing Industar 50-2 can do margic. I’m sure. Miracles. Or maybe it just makes me relax when I photograph. Makes me more playful…

Mosquito resurrection

It has been dark for so long

And it’s so small, this little russian Tessar-formula M42-lens. Here it is on the small film SLR Canon EOS 300V:

Took a short walk in the wood yesterday but the cold really got to me – at least I got one testshot of the bokeh with Yashica ML 50mm/1.4 before I gave up. These are some dead plants. One thing I noticed was that that highlights in bokeh when the lens is wide open get hard edges on the circles. Something to avoid, I think. Otherwise the lens feels great.

Today I got this mice package from c-hylse with a Yashica ML 50mm/1.4 in prefect condition :) I went outside and tried a few shots. It felt good but I’m not used to the f1.4 yet so many of the shots were to short depth.

Image of the lens itself will come shortly :)