The Limbo Connection's photos

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

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Nikon D700. Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 Di VC USD lens. F/5.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Nikon D700. Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 AF lens at 210mm and f/5.6 (i.e. wide open).

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Nikon D700. Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens at 28mm and f/8. There's nothing wrong with this lens that a good f/8 won't cure. But don't drop it or look at it hard. It's flimsy. Part of its charm.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Nikon D700. Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 Di VC USD lens. F/6.3.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Nikon D700. Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 Di VC USD lens. F/11.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Nikon D700. Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 AF lens at 210mm and f/11. I gave up carrying a heavy 70-210mm f/2.8 lens and (after a period of reflection) settled on the lightweight and ancient Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 AF lens instead. It does however need to be stopped down quite a bit from its widest aperture to get decent clarity.

Passing bookcase with camera. Thinks...Might as well have another go. Nikon D700 + Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

Originally this photo was in colour and looked uncertain. Conversion to black and white made it more confident. I took this photograph with a Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens on a Nikon D700. The Micro-Nikkor was manufactured circa 1978, give or take a year either way. I bought it for £65 in 2011. I don't know how many previous owners it had had, but it has survived many of my periodic lens culls because it is such fun to use. The camera settings were 800 ISO, 1/160th, and f/4 in aperture priority. Although shot as a JPG I nonetheless used Lightroom to convert and boost here and there, plus cropping to 8 x 10" format. Image no. 27,316 on this D700.

The new dress, as yet uncompleted, was shot as a JPG, at 1/320th and f/4 with ISO set at 800, using a Nikon D700, with a Nikkor-H Auto 85mm f/1.8 lens. For many years I searched sporadically for a Nikkor-H 85mm f/1.8 lens which had been factory-adapted to the new Nikon AI system introduced in 1977. The company never offered the lens in the AI range because they had a more compact f/2 lens ready to go. Opinions vary over which was the better lens, but there is strong affection for the original. At long last I found one for sale; cosmetically beaten up but still functional, as you might expect of a Nikkor lens of the 1964-77 period.

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

"Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed." Garry Winogrand. Photographed exactly as found, except cropped for emphasis. Nikon D700 and Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 AF lens. 110mm.

Bags for life. Nikon D700 and Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 AF.

Nikon D700 and Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 lens.

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

Nikon D700 and AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5D at 80mm. 1/400th, f/10. Made more vivid in Lightroom. It seemed appropriate to amplify the intensity.

Crossing Dreamy Bridge in the rain. Nikon D700, Nikkor 135mm f/2.8 Nikkor AI lens. 6400 ISO; 1/2500; f/2.8. Quite unsuitable settings.

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