I live in the old house in the rural countryside of southern Finland. I am here with my loving family and dead rats. I work in the attic and sometimes found stuff lost in there. When I listen to my recordings I sometimes hear a gull or some small nightly songbird. Usually just passing cars on a distant highway.

 

We are sparrows.

 

I am a father, musician, poet, artist and a bum. I'm a lover not a fighter, bleedingheart and an aging hippie, well not so old yet but sometimes my bones feel like the old wood in this house.

 

I have always loved computers as a tool to realize ones dreams. In theory I could work in IT.

 

I started photography as a child when my mother let me use her SLR to take family pictures. It was a Minolta SRT100b with MC Rokkor PF 50mm f/2. World seemed better on groundglass. It was an easy way to edit myself out of the pictures before photoshop.

 

It took awhile till I realized I can shoot anything. I was never real photographer, I just loved them pictures.

 

Then years went by and my interested moved to other directions, and for many years I didn't even have a camera. I just loaned that old Minolta from time to time. To the point that my mother finally gave it to me. With few lenses I started my photographic journey again, filming my family and small things.

 

In this new millennium I moved to digital photography with Minolta dimage Z10. It was easy to use and it gave enough control to photographer. I used it quite a lot and somehow my SLR became neglected. Being on a tight budget, I rather shooted free ones and zeroes.

 

Point-and-shoot digital was handy with digital art that I made at the time but I yearned for the quality of old days. I always used to dream about the perfect system where I could use my manual Rokkors with full manual digital body. Knowing that Minolta SR bayonet (MC/MD) was incompatible with every other SLR system I just kept on dreaming.

 

Then one day I heard about digitalrokkor and I was in heaven.

 

Now I have Canon EOS 30d with new EOS to MD mount and focusing screen from old Minolta SLR.

  

My pieces of history:

 

MC Rokkor-OK 16mm f/2.8 Fisheye

MD W.Rokkor 24mm f/2.8

MC W.Rokkor-HH 35mm f/1.8

MD Rokkor 50mm f/1.4

MC Rokkor-PF 50mm f/2

MC Rokkor 50mm f/3.5 Macro

MC Rokkor-PF 58mm f/1.4

MC Tele Rokkor 100mm f/2.5

MC Tele Rokkor 135mm f/2.8

MD Rokkor zoom 35-70mm f/3.5 macro (1:4)

 

Other 3rd party glass with MD mount

 

Elicar V-HQ MC 90mm f/2.5 Macro (1:1)

Tamron SP 300mm f/5.6

Vivitar 400mm f/5.6

 

Yashikor 80mm f/3.5 Tilt & Little Shift

This is an DIY project from plastic jar, car part and old Yashica TRL lens. I use it with 25mm extension tube.