The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: clock

I used a 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 Nikkor G lens on a Nikon D700 to photograph this domestic scene. I set the aperture at f/8. That is where the lens performs best. This lens weighs a bit less than all the coffee granules in a 200g jar. I drink Nescafe Gold Blend if that helps you visualise it. Just the contents - not the jar. So this lens weighs about the same as a dozen mice, give or take a mouse, if you can round them up and keep them on the kitchen scales for long enough. This lens isn't at its best indoors in poor light. Recommendation 1: Use this lens out of doors on a nice day. There are approximately 1,700,000 of these lenses. This was the kit lens for the Nikon F55, F60, and F65 cameras around the turn of the millennium. It comes in black and silver finishes. I have used both. Currently I have black. Oddly, I prefer silver. Recommendation 2: Buy the colour you like, not the colour the merchant has available. I have sold two previous copies of this lens, believing its cheapness and poor construction quality to be unrepresentative of who I am. Recommendation 3: Know who and what you are. This lens will focus as close as 14 inches. That's about a little finger longer than a 12 inch ruler. That is quite close by ordinary lens standards. Good for pretty flowers in the garden, or a close-up of your cat's nostrils. Ken Rockwell always photographs his expensive wrist watch to demonstrate close focus. But he is wealthy and I am not. If you break this lens, it doesn't really matter. You can probably get a replacement for less than 50 (dollars, euros, pounds). But it's unlikely you'll break it because photographers are mostly careful with their equipment. Recommendation 4: Continue being careful.

Fujifilm X-E1 and Fujinon XF 35mm f/1.4 R lens. Shot at 400 ISO with a shutter speed of 1/250th and at aperture f/1.4.

We measured time. We divided it. We made revisions. We engineered instruments of time. We commodified time. Time was bought and sold. We believe time is immutable. Yet we are fascinated by the possibility that it may be elastic. Nikon D2Xs + Vivitar 28mm f/2.8 Close Focus Wide Angle lens. There are several versions of this lens; the serial number of this one is 28430xxx with a filter size of 49mm and marked 'Made in Japan'. That reveals it was made by Komine (Vivitar never actually manufactured any lenses - all the work was contracted out). It was an OK lens, nothing stellar, and I got rid of it. The Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 AI, although slower, is in my opinion much better, but it costs quite a bit more. And better still, I recommend the Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI. Manual of course, but plenty of depth-of-field to work with when using a wide-angle.

Camera: Fujifilm X-E1. Lens: Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R.

Completely rebuilt in 1848. The new building was basically a reproduction of the original fourteenth-century building, but with a longer nave and different windows. Nikon D2Xs with a Nikkor AF-S DX 18-200mm lens.

Westclox had a factory in Dumbarton, Scotland, where this alarm clock was probably made. The business failed to thrive when Quartz clock technology was introduced and the factory closed in 1988. Nikon D2Xs and Vivitar 28mm f/2.8 Close Focus AIS lens. 100 ISO. There are many different 28mm Vivitar-branded lenses in a wide choice of camera mounts. Vivitar never made its own lenses - the company drew up specifications and invited lens manufacturers to bid for the work. This particular lens has a serial number beginning with '28' and from that it is possible to trace its maker to Komine. In the world of third-party lenses this one had a good reputation and a bit of a cult following. Some users likened it to the quality level of a Vivitar series 1 lens. I thought it was quite decent but on the whole I preferred a Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 even though it was slower.

The florid Jubilee clock. It was not always florid. From its birth in 1888 until the 1920s it was rather drab. You see how old I am to recall these facts.

The historian, writer, and politician Alan Clark - the elder son of Lord Clark of Civilisation - lived in Seend during the 1970s. Before moving to the eastern end of the village he lived next door to the Church of the Holy Cross and wrote a history of it. He described the church as 'a fine structure dating from about 1450 and situated on the south side of Seend ridge, with open views across the Lavingtons to the northern edge of Salisbury Plain which forms the skyline some ten miles distant. Visitors enter the churchyard through an elegant wrought iron gate surmounted by a suspended lantern. This was beautifully restored in 1962 in memory of Sylvia Cassels’. Nikon D700 + Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI lens. This is a crop. I ought to have used a lens of longer focal length from the place I took this picture.

Nikon D2Xs + Vivitar 28mm f/2.8 Close Focus Wide Angle lens.

Canon EOS 30D + Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens.

I don't know if time has colour but if it does, I feel there is a very good chance that it is brown. Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 Zebra lens on a Canon EOS 40D.

Time slipping away, new dreams born every day Suddenly, these dreams are behind you. Nikon D700 + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI lens with Nikon TC-16A teleconverter.

The clock at St. Cyriac's, Lacock from the inside. Nikon D2Xs and Sigma 15-30mm F3.5-4.5 EX DG Aspherical DF lens.

A sweet occasion such as this Another chance to reminisce And though together we have grown It's magical how time has flown. Nikon D2Xs and a Vivitar 28mm Close Focus f/2.8 lens.

Nikon D2Xs and Vivitar 28mm Close Focus f/2.8 lens. This is a very useful optic.