As a reaction to my post “5 reasons I love manual lenses” some responses on other sites was claiming you need, yes MUST have autofocus to shoot moving objects. This is, I guess, from people who haven’t tried and can not turn a ring.

Sure. I have not shot birds, swallows in flight, racing cars… oh, but I wait I am mistaken. I have photographed those things with manual focus. But the “newer is better myth” says it’s impossible. I wonder what more miracles I can perform? ;)

I don’t have time to find really good examples today, so just some I fetched from my flickr, but my point is that it takes some practise but it is possible. The swan is one of my first manual photos and not the greatest of images but it is in focus:

Racing a cloudy, foggy day

Flying Swan, one of my first manual photos

The Yashicaforum has been off to a good start with interested users, and we are already 29 registered users who love Yashicas – great! Now, don’t you want to become number 30 to join the YashicaForum? ;)

YashicaForum.com

Since I’ve started buying Pentax and Yashica-things I’vre realized that there are Pentaxforums (and now a Takumar-forum) but no specific forum for us interested in Yashicas.

So I bought the domain www.yashicaforum.com and have installed a forum-application. Eventhough it’s basic functionality at the moment and has to be filled with interesting information and discussions, I hope you will help me – welcome as new member, and feel free to come with suggestions about the site! :)