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Orange sundown and blue snow

Another picture on the theme “warm and cold”. Shot last sunday (7 feb 2010) in Suttarboda on the hills above my home in Sweden. Not sure about the lens, but it must have been Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8 or Yashica ML 35mm/2.8. I love them both and the picture came out the way I wanted it.

Watching a swedish sundown:

Warm and cold part 3

The warm and cold part 2

This winter dusk will make the warm and cold part 2 in my series. The deep bue was partly accomplished by linear polarizer (the once we’re often told don’t work well on DSLRs).

Winter dusk

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

Black and White vs Colour – part 4

Well, it’s november and time for another Black and White vs Colour – part 4 this time. Some day I’ll put the votes together and see the result ;) This is from the weekend. Leaves are falling, snow melting, rain, snow, wind, gray … as I said, november.

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Stuck on flowers

This time of year the flower is a motif easy to get stuck on. There are so many, so nice with bokeh. We miss them during the winter in Sweden. Then comes the autumn and a lot of images show autumn leafs ;) Well, here are some more flowers I portraied in the City park in Örebro. They are made with Helios 44-3 and S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8 lenses and Canon EOS 350D (and a M42->EOS adapter of course). Guess which is which?

Flower with Helios 44-3
Oxeye daisy

Asahi Takumar frenzy

Some of the Takumar M42-lenses I owned/own. Works great on my Canon EOS, of course :) And they are also very pretty.

Asahi Super-Takumar 28mm/3.5
Asahi Super-Takumar 35mm/3.5
Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8
Asahi Auto-Takumar 85mm/1.8
Asahi Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5

My little digger

A day in the park with my daugter digging in the sandbox. We hade fun with some friends and had a good break from everyday troubles. I like the attitude in this photo! I think this was made with Asahi Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm/1.8 M42-lens. I had it on the camera all afternoon. It’s has a good feeling with fast focus and quality.

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Classic car shot with classic S-M-C Takumar lens

I think this was shot with the S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8. This weeend we had a classic car-meeting where I live in Sweden (Garphyttan/Ånnaboda), and the cars passed through my village. Sadly I couldnt afford to visit the actual meeting but I got some shots along the road at least.

Classic car

Classic car

Growing up

Flower with Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm/1.8 on Canon EOS 350D. Might have had an extensionring on too.

Growing up

Growing up

Thunder awaits us

This time of year there are a lot of thunderstorms where I live. Short and not large, but enought to make you turn compters of. Arghh.. annoying. This is made with Asahi Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm/1.8 on an Canon EOS 350D.

Review of Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8

Takumars are often great wonder of quality, and so are normals like this Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8. My most used lenses are the normal primes (around 50mm) so naturally I wanted a Takumar of some sort in the normal range since I collect them. I managed to find an auction with some great stuff…

S-M-C Takumar 55mm f1.8 M42

S-M-C Takumar 55mm f1.8 M42

The purchase
I got this on swedish ebay in a package with a lot of stuff. There was this Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm/1.8 lens and then:

  • Asahi Pentax Spotmatic SLR in great condition
  • Tele-Tokina 105mm/f2.8 lens which turned out to be really rare
  • Soligor 35mm/3.5 which I sold
  • Gossen Sixtar lightmeter
  • big Braun 370 BVC flash I can’t get to work (corroded batteries)
  • filters and accessories

All for about $40 and then shipping. I think that was a good price. Some of the items are now sold, I keep the ones I use.

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