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.

I have decided to start posting photolinks in this way, this is part 1. The idea was stolen from Brian and my swedish friend Bengt (thanks Brian and Bengt!) ;) My links will be about old cameras, lenses or art and photography in general. I would appreciate if you give some tips on links I should include (I can not guarantee I will though) :)

• “Common Sense Lens Selection Philosophy”
  I respect any photographer writing the line “The market for used lenses is incredible.” Go read Jeff Lynch’s article about common sense, the thing that made a lot of us choose manual lenses.
• “Then & Now: Kodak Movie Cameras”
  I have discovered this site with a similar name to mine, Retro Thing. And they do write about cameras and optics sometimes. Great! :)
• “Time Tales”
  A final place for forgotten, discarded photographs to rest. Somehow it’s very interesting looking through these old pictures.
• “When is Manual Focus Better than Auto Focus?”
  An interesting article on digital Photography School. I guess you know my point of view? Manual focus is always best ;)

Se a Carl Zeiss Planar 85mm/1.4 ZE over at forum.mflenses.com. User LucisPictor has got his hands on one of these lenses and I guess he will post more intreseting things about it :)

It is my intention to publish a series of interviews on Retrocamera.net. The first one out is Joe Marcel Wolff who runs the site www.yashica-guy.com, an important bookmark for everyone with an interest in Yashica rangefinder cameras or in need of a battery adapter – make sure to pay a visit to the site. But first I like to thank Joe for interesting answers! :) Now, lets start the interview….

Yashica Guy

A lot of enthusiast that love photography and starts with digital, now get interested in film-cameras – the old SLR’s and rangefinders. There’s lots of groups on Flickr, and Youtube videos on street photography. How do you feel about this development? Will this small renaissance for old cameras fade, you think?

“I was not aware that there were many people starting out with digital cameras and then switching to film but rather the reverse.

Part of the problem, if this is in fact a trend, would be that many digital cameras have too many “Bells & Whistles” and take too long to get into ready to shoot mode and the time lag in writing data.

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