The Limbo Connection's photos

Nikon D700 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AF-D lens.

Before the cream.

Freshly laundered and pressed. Nikon D2Xs and Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI lens, thus a field of view equivalent to 42mm.

The Safrotto camera bag resembles, but is not an exact copy of, a Domke F2 bag. Avid followers of my bag fetish will recollect my reporting critical comments read on various websites about the alleged diminished quality of the canvas used in the production of Domke bags since some hard-to-place moment in the ownership status of the brand name. I have not the faintest idea of whether this is true; I have no examples of Domke bags from the time when Jim Domke owned the production to use as a comparator, and even if I did, I wouldn't pay out for a current example. Nor do I know when this (presumably Chinese) Safrotto bag was manufactured, but I can tell you for free that the canvas is of considerable weight, and so also, therefore, is the bag that has been produced with it. Not as heavy as a comparable sized Billingham though. The bag horses are frightened to kick lest they break a fetlock. More bag news soon! Nikon D2Xs and Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

All night long the Lego sentinel guards these keys. He is supposed to do his duty standing up and occasionally patrolling around the immediate vicinity, but invariably he lies down and falls asleep. Half plastic, half dog. Nikon D2Xs and Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

Nikon D2Xs and Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 AF lens. The lens dates from circa 1987. It is sturdy and - for a lens of this type - fairly lightweight at 665g (24 ounces). But mysteriously it increases in weight as I proceed through my planned photographic explorations of distant parts. If it keeps pulling this trick it will have to stay at home and be used only for photographing nearby domestic objects.

Nikon D2Xs and Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI lens. 800 ISO (always scruffy on this camera), 1/250th, f/3.2. Should have halved the shutter speed and set 400 ISO. Inattentive.

Nikon D2Xs and Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AF-D lens at f/2.8.

That's the brow beating Heavy leather Resurrection beat.

Nikon D50 and Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens.

Nikon D50 and Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens.

Trees at Lacock Abbey. Nikon D700 and Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

A photograph taken in February, 2018, and edited afresh. What prompted me to do this was catching a glimpse of the picture whilst organising an album for photographs made using a Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens.

Lacock Abbey; one of the chambers accessed via the cloisters. The cloisters survived the building of a new house by Sir William Sharington, its new owner following the dissolution of the monasteries: he simply built on top of them. Not so fortunate was the abbey church; he demolished it for use as building materials. Many visitors to Lacock Abbey have been inspired to come as a result of seeing movies about J. K.Rowling's Harry Potter character. I don't know if the lady in the picture and her family were there because of that, but they were very cheerful and tolerant of photographers in their way. This photo was taken using a Nikon D700 and a Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens. I am on my third copy of this lens, having sold the earlier two, mostly out of photo-snobbishness that they weren't pro grade optics. However, they have other virtues, chief among them of being astoundingly light in weight for a camera lens.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Nikon D700. Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens at 28mm and f/8.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Nikon D700. Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens at 50mm and f/5. Needs to be at least f/8 to get a decent image. 1/50th - needs to be at least 1/125th to get a sharp image. ISO is already at 800. You begin to see what photographers were up against when these kit lenses were provided with the last ever consumer grade film cameras. For all practical purposes 800 ISO was the limit in those times. So: bright sunny day; tripod; or flashgun. I don't fancy the last two much.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Nikon D700. Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 AF lens at 145mm and f/8.