Posts Tagged ‘yashica’
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!
Here are some pictures of my new Yashica ML 50mm/1.4, pretty isn’t it? :) These pictures were taken with Yashica ML 50mm/2.
Yashica ML 50mm/1.4
Yashica ML 50mm/1.4 front
Yashica ML 50mm/1.4 side
The Contax/Yashica mount of this lens
Today I got this mice package from c-hylse with a Yashica ML 50mm/1.4 in prefect condition :) I went outside and tried a few shots. It felt good but I’m not used to the f1.4 yet so many of the shots were to short depth.
Image of the lens itself will come shortly :)
The DSB range of the Yashica brand is not supposed to be that good. It was their lowcost alternative and single coated. But this Yashica DSB 50mm/1.9 has surprised me a lot. I love the ML 50mm/2, but it would be hard to compare these two. The DSB is a little bigger which makes it easier to handle the rings.
Flowers with Yashica DSB 50mm/1.9
I will soon post some more on the yashicaforum.
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
Today my new manual lens Yashica DSB 50mm/1.9 arrived. Bought it very cheap on Tradera (swe ebay). It’s single-coated and seems sharper then I would have thought. This is a lens with Contax/Yashica mount. Here’s a photography of leafs on the ground, for more images look at my thread on YashicaForum.com. Review will come soon, maybe in comparison to Yashica ML 50mm/2.
Today I uploaded some colourphotos taken with the Yashica J-7 on Flickr. Some nice, but a lot of problems with noice and a lightleak (probably due to my poor handling of the camera in bad weather, and shooting the camera in heavy lights inside softbox). The film is some Kodak colour film 400 ASA from the local grocery store ;)
Henry Hudson rose from my garden
My daughter in swings
Parkinglot
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.