RetroCamera http://www.retrocamera.net Old retrocamera equipment in a digital photography world. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:32:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 New website tips http://www.retrocamera.net/2010/02/new-website-tips/ http://www.retrocamera.net/2010/02/new-website-tips/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:31:48 +0000 Mattias http://www.retrocamera.net/?p=916 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.

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Factory
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Over the hill
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Watching a swedish sundown:

Warm and cold part 3
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Winter dusk

Shot with Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm/1.8 on Canon EOS 350D.

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Warm and cold, part1

I think this was shot with Yashica 35mm/2.8, however I’m not certain. I almost got stuck there, with a leg dissapeared completely in the snow.

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It would of course be limited both in number of blogs and space, but I think it’s an interesting option for those who can feel a connection with the domain name. So step number 1: is there any interest in such a service?

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Show me your “into the sun”-picture!

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