Johan's blog ^pro

The photographer

I met this guy in Tournai. He was very interested in my cameras, and he told me that he used to be a professional photographer back in the film days (Nikon FM era). Unfortunately he could only speak French, and my French is rather limited ... it would have been interesting to learn more about him. Now we didn't get much further than cameras, the colors of the leaves and the city, his film choices, and a lot of hand gestures :-)

It's a bit sad that he seems to live on the street nowadays.

Wir fahren in 5 Minuten nach Deutschland, in die Eifel (Prüm). Hoffentlich werden wir gutes Wetter mitbringen

Bis später!

Over 5 minuten vertrekken wij naar Duitsland, de Eifel (Prüm). Hopelijk nemen we mooi weer mee!

Tot later!

Since a couple of months, I'm using a Pentax Takumar 35/3,5 and a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 135/3,5 lens on my 30D. And I love them

Now another one is on its way to me, a (suppposedly) "near mint" Pentax SMC Takumar 200mm f/4. In M42 mount, so I can easily use it on my Canon EOS, with the AF-confirm adapter.

If the quality is comparable to the Sonnar 135, I am a very happy person

Pictures should come up in about a week ... I don't expect to have it before the weekend.

Edit: it arrived My first impression is that I rate the Sonnar 135 a bit higher, but that it is a very nice lens!

This week I got two manual lenses, from a Dutch auction site. The first one is a Pentax Super Takumar 35/3.5 and the second one is a Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/3.5.

Both are manual focus, and the modern Canon digital reflexes don't have a suitable viewfinder for manual focusing anymore, so I am eagerly waiting for the ordered adapters with a focus confirm chip! For now I use a simple mechanical adapter, judging sharpness with my eyes only.

I am very impressed with the CZJ Sonnar lens so far, but I didn't have much time to test it yet (hopefully this weekend). The colors and bokeh are beautiful, and the sharpness doesn't seem to be below modern Canon lenses.

Anyone else on Ipernity who enjoys using old style lenses on their modern camera? How are your experiences?

After having used Flickr exclusively for photo-sharing for three years, it is really refreshing to see the diversity of languages on Ipernity! I mean, Flickr is dominated by English speakers, and here on Ipernity, it is a mix of English, French, German and Esperanto (and I certainly forgot a few others too).

Unfortunately I only speak and write Dutch, English and German, but I'll try to do my best ... apologies in advance for my mistakes

Yesterday I moved in here, from Flickr. Thanks to the great Flickr Importer greasemonkey script, I transferred all my pictures to Ipernity. However, I lost all my groups and albums, so it is time to start arranging things again. I'm sure I'll feel at home here very soon