Bell Farm, Heddington Wick

Photographed with a Canon EOS 30D (£59.78 on eBay, February, 2015) and a Canon EF 35-135mm f/4-5.6 Ultrasonic lens (£37 on eBay, July, 2015).

The lens was in production for ten years from 1990. It has quite a good reputation for a product aimed at the amateur end of the market. It’s more modern and advanced than the trombone action Canon 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 EF I had and which I wore out, but it’s not as nice in my opinion.

I bought the camera to use with old screw-thread M42 lenses for a bit of a challenge. (You need an M42 - EOS adapter if you fancy doing this. They don’t cost much). Then I saw the 35-135mm lens on eBay going cheap. You could see why from the photograph. It looked as though it had been stored for several years in a shed. It cleaned up OK and the focus motor worked readily. There was a scratch concealed by the dirt on the front of the lens but damage of this sort has to be desperately bad to make much difference in normal use.