Posts Tagged ‘yashica’
This weekend we had a snowstorm in Sweden, so I needed some poor photographers weather protection. So with a plastic bag and a rubber band wrapped around the lens I challenged the weather gods and took a photowalk with blowing winds and snow up to my waiste. The lens used was Yashica ML 50mm/2.
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:
I think it’s an interesting experiment to point your lens to the sun. Shows if these old things have this possibility. Ad did some experimenting at my last photowalk since I forgot some filters I had planned to use. It’s is winter and very cold here in Sweden. Lots, lots of snow. Sometime up to my waistline. But it was worth it. If not for the pictures for the experience. Here is a picture shot with Yashica MC Zoom 35-70 (if I remember correct) into the sun.
Show me your “into the sun”-picture!
I shot some pictures of ice at factory here in our village. The contrast from the ice to the factory brickwall is interesting I think. The winter is fun to photograph sometimes, but I long for the summer and longer daylight.
It was a Yashica lens, either the ML 35mm/2.8 or MC Zoom 35-70mm/3.5-4.5. I’m impressed that they made it in the -20 °C cold.
The art of winter photography is really hard. Big contrasts for the camera, snow and ice and shadows. Most of the days I work for the few hours we have daylight. If I’m lucky, I’ll get time to shoot some pictures at lunchbreak or in the weekend.
Shot with Yashica MC Zoom 35-70/3.5-4.5, review here.
This is a lens I bought on ebay after hearing good things about it, well at least the small amount of information I could find. The price was $22. I have discovered that Yashica zooms is very hard to find information about, specially now since earlier source of information cdegroot.com is gone. Well, here are my thoughts on this…
The lens
This is a slim little zoom. Filter threads are 52mm. The zoom is wide when you slide it out, tele when you slide it back – quite the opposit(?) to the normal, modern zooms which is tele when extended. The aperture range is from f 3.5 – f 22. My copy of the lens was in very, very good shape. In fact it feels new.
Loading ...An image shot with Yashica ML 35mm/2.8, one with Black and white and one with Colour. Which is best?
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 ;)
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.
In the river nearby, down the hill the water goes but sometimes freezes in time. Caught with Yashica ML 50mm/2 and my Canon. This was before the real cold came, I want to get back there some day soon . now it’s bound to be more ice!
