The Cook
Take a Deep Breath
The Wrecked Fence
Life in the Fast Lane
Three Buttons, Three Reflections
A Rainy Day
Lacock Abbey Botanical Garden
Photographed at Lacock Abbey, 20th April 2016
Yellow
A Shoal of Laundryfish
Trivento Argentina
Cobweb
White, With Added Grime
Corduroy Cap
Flat Cap
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Melsome Wood
Soligor C/D Wide-Auto f/2.8 28mm Lens
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Fruit
Space (I Believe In)
A Shoal of Pencil Fish
Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 (Four Mugs…
Yellowness
Twin Peaks
Sheep
North Wiltshire Hills
Bridge
On the Move
A Wall in Reybridge No. 3
A Wall in Reybridge No. 1
A Wall in Reybridge No. 2
An English Thistle
Reyview
Reybridge, England
Canon 100-300mm - Depth-of-Field
In Search of Giverny
Bee At Work
Bide Brook
Imogen's Bee
After the Storm
Buttered Toast
A Woman I Met in Lacock Abbey Cloisters
Palm Sunday
Heigh-ho
Tea or Coffee?
Tiller Girl (Colour)
Spring Flowers at Lacock Abbey
Nestle, As Was
Photograph
Collage, feat. Charlotte Ritchie
Deserted Dodgems
Citroën
Hot Neon
Lavender
Chinon 55mm f/1.4: (2)
Chinon 55mm f/1.4: (3)
Chinon 55mm f/1.4: (4)
Chinon 55mm f/1.4: (5)
Chinon 55mm f/1.4: (6)
Chinon 55mm f/1.4: (7)
Chinon 55mm f/1.4: (8)
Chinon 55mm f/1.4: (1)
Brown Study
Time is Brown
Buttered Toast
Scholarship
Tenba Equa
Still Life in Two Colours
Michael Langford's 35mm Handbook and Other Excitin…
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Thread
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Country House Pekoe Tips
Stone (No Paper, No Scissors)
Ferrules
Chocolate Buns
The Back
Peggy Butler's Bench
Red, Like Any Other
River Avon at Chippenham
Say Cheese/Souriez!
Office Suite W.C.1
Rowney
The Planets
Premises
Canon EF 35-135mm f/4-5.6 USM
Rags
Oil, 1999
Chocolate Buns
A Fast Standard Lens
The New Baby
Konica
The Concise Oxford Dictionary
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The 35mm Photographer's Handbook
Photography: Depth-of-Field
Lemn in Tumblr
Toast
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Raindrops
Blue, with Chinon on Tubes
Raw Sienna
The Limbo Connection
Learn How
The Visitors
The Man at the Fair
The Missing Scissors
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Barrels
Brewery
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Down on the Farm
1969
A Family Outing
Time
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Red Tractor
Autumn in Hither Way
Morris Man
Leaking Boots
Shelve It
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Pentacon, Tessar, Carl Zeiss Jena, Helios and Jupiter Photos
Pentacon, Tessar, Carl Zeiss Jena, Helios and Jupiter Photos
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Tessar Lens
Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens (£12 on eBay) on a Canon EOS 40D digital camera.
The cheapest route to a lens with 'Carl Zeiss' on it. Manufactured between 1952 and 1978, thus there is plenty of choice on the secondhand market. The moment I had it in my hand, I loved the feel of it and the smooth focus and aperture adjustment. Using it on a crop sensor digital camera avoids the criticism that it is soft at the corners: I'm using only the best part of the simple optics. Nevertheless, optimum performance is f/8 - f/11 where contrast is best; otherwise post-processing will improve your efforts. F/2.8 is slow, but these days we're all used to levels of ISO which were unimaginable when this lens was in production, and so only photographers chasing depth-of-field will be bothered by the slowness. Close focus is about twelve inches - it's practically macro! And the long focus throw provides plenty of scope for tiny adjustments. The front element is well recessed: no need for a lens hood, nor a protective filter for that matter (but I disdain protective filters anyway. Like extended warranties, they exist to improve dealers' profit margins).
Not as good as the 55mm f/3.5 Micro-Nikkor, which is hard to beat by any lens, but much cheaper, and fun to use. Colour rendition isn't bad, either.
The cheapest route to a lens with 'Carl Zeiss' on it. Manufactured between 1952 and 1978, thus there is plenty of choice on the secondhand market. The moment I had it in my hand, I loved the feel of it and the smooth focus and aperture adjustment. Using it on a crop sensor digital camera avoids the criticism that it is soft at the corners: I'm using only the best part of the simple optics. Nevertheless, optimum performance is f/8 - f/11 where contrast is best; otherwise post-processing will improve your efforts. F/2.8 is slow, but these days we're all used to levels of ISO which were unimaginable when this lens was in production, and so only photographers chasing depth-of-field will be bothered by the slowness. Close focus is about twelve inches - it's practically macro! And the long focus throw provides plenty of scope for tiny adjustments. The front element is well recessed: no need for a lens hood, nor a protective filter for that matter (but I disdain protective filters anyway. Like extended warranties, they exist to improve dealers' profit margins).
Not as good as the 55mm f/3.5 Micro-Nikkor, which is hard to beat by any lens, but much cheaper, and fun to use. Colour rendition isn't bad, either.
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