Red Letterboxes

Postbox at Kellaways. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor DX AF-S 35mm f/1.8G lens.

Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro camera.

Canon EOS 30D + Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 Tessar lens. Cropped.

Shot with a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens.

Mount Pleasant, Bradford on Avon. Nikon D50 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AF-D lens. The field of view using the 50mm on the D50 was equivalent to 75mm.

Communication Ancient & Modern. Even when I owned a better camera than the Nikon D50 I continued to use the lesser of the two. It was light in weight and I didn't fret over what might happen to it - they were easily replaced at little cost on the secondhand market. Nothing ever did happen to it, though. It was quite a sturdy instrument. The pictures it made had good colour characteristics. People ascribe this to its CCD sensor. That type of sensor had been superseded by CMOS technology which initially produced a flatter, slightly clinical, sort of picture. I rather liked what came out of the D50 and years later bought a very inexpensive D40 which was specified with the same CCD sensor. Manufacturers preferred CMOS largely because it was cheaper to produce and it seemed to take some years before CMOS technology had a bit of photographic soul about it. Some might argue that it's still inferior. The photo was taken with a Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AF lens, which behaved like a 35mm focal length on the crop sensor of the D50.

Ashton Street. Random Fact No.1: The 'ROYAL MAIL' legend first appeared on letter boxes in the early 1990s; prior to this letter boxes had the words 'POST OFFICE' cast onto them. The change was prompted by the separation of Post Office Counters Limited and Royal Mail as independent companies. Random Fact No.2: In the early days of letterboxes they were painted green so that they would not be obtrusive. That led to complaints from people who could not find them. Nikon D700 and Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.