The Limbo Connection's photos

Photographed at The Courts National Trust Garden at Holt, Wiltshire with a Nikon D2Xs and a 180mm f/2.8 Nikkor AF lens.

Bonds are the horizontal patterns in which bricks are laid. There are five main types of bond used in old structures and this is an example of English garden wall bond. It is a variation on English bond, laying more stretchers and thus using fewer bricks. This style is cheaper to produce than English bond. However, it is also less strong, hence its use in traditional walled gardens and other modest structures.

Nikon D90 + AF Nikkor 35-70 f/2.8 lens.

Nikon D50 + AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED lens.

I was a chorister here, oh, so long ago. Sunday Evensong with the setting sun spilling through the west window under which we donned surplice and cassock in a curtained-off area behind the last pews. The dust motes swirling in the shafts of light; the hum of conversation as worshippers took their places. Minutes passed in an air of expectancy. Finally, the hoisting of the holy cross and the procession along the nave to the chancel, passing the congregation occupying the same pews as last week and the week before, yea even unto the Norman conquest. Shuffling, page-turning, clearing of throats, the wheeze of the organ bellows as fresh wind was pumped in. And at last, on cue, the majesty of the organ pipes filled the church, and voices harmonised in a noble offering being simultaneously replicated in ten thousand other English churches. Nikon F90X and a Sigma 15-30mm EX lens.

A shot of the interior of the Wild Cafe in Bath taken with a Nikon FE fitted with a Nikon Type C 55mm f/3.5 Micro- PC Auto. This is a pre-Ai lens made between 1973 and 1975. In addition to using it with the FE (where a little lug on the lens throat needed to be raised for safe installation), I used it with an M2 extension ring on a Nikon D50 digital SLR. Only with the ring was it safe to use this lens on that camera, although there are some digital Nikons where it could be safely used. The effect of the M2 ring is to provide 1:1 macro; the lens alone has a maximum of 1:2 macro.

Photographed in Bath with a Nikon D50 and a Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 G lens. The people who processed 35 mm film never cared about your photographs. That’s just one reason why digital is better.

Photographed in Bath with a Nikon D50 and a Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens. The Wild Cafe is not a French restaurant, oh no, far from it. I was simply feeling whimsical when I posted this picture. Something about the French and bicycles, I guess.

Photographed on Swanage Pier with a Nikon D50 and a Nikkor AF-S DX 35mm f/1.8G lens.

Photographed at Swanage Railway with a Nikon D50 and a Nikkor AF-S DX 35mm f/1.8G lens.

St. Cyriac's at Lacock, Wiltshire.

55mm Micro-Nikkor f/3.5 AI lens. Originally a bigger colour photograph. Unfortunately the light was flat.

Close up of the bridge over Bide Brook, Lacock, Wiltshire. Nikon D2Xs and 135mm f/2.8 Nikkor. 100 ISO, f/5.6, 1/20th sec.

35mm f/1.8 AF-S DX Nikkor on a Nikon D90.

Nikon D2Xs with an AF-D 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor lens.

I used a Nikkor 70-210mm f/4 AF lens on a Nikon D50. Here it faced a stern test: 1600 ISO; 210mm; 1/100th (far too slow - you can see the camera shake) and wide open at f/4. I broke practically all the rules. The Nikkor 70-210mm f/4 AF lens, introduced in 1986, was made for only 18 months, and was replaced by the smaller, slower and cheaper AF 70-210mm f/4-5.6. The AF 70-210mm f/4 is largely distortion-free, whereas the successor AF 70-210mm f/4-5.6 is handicapped by high levels of distortion. This lens is useful on several counts. If your digital SLR has the AF screw drive, you can use all the features of this lens without hindrance. It is a good deal lighter to carry than an f/2.8 alternative, and only one stop different throughout the focal range, being a lens of constant aperture.

AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens on a Nikon D2Xs.