The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: speed

Lens: AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.8D. If I were limited to a single lens, this would probably be it.

Wafaa belly dancers. Despite the scruffy background and the too-tight framing, this photograph probably captures the essence of the dancers' performance better than any of the others I got that day.

Wet and windy afternoon with a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens on a Canon EOS 30D camera. All manual, including exposure.

East Somerset Railway, Cranmore. Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens.

Sydney Gardens, Bath. The rush hour. Nikon D2Xs + Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di II LD lens.

Nikon D50 + AF Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6 G lens. The lens was at 300mm focal length and ISO was set at 400. The Program AE chose a shutter speed of 1/1600 and an aperture of f/5.6.

Nikon D2Xs fitted with a Nikon TC-16A teleconverter and a 75-150mm f/3.5 Series E lens. When you use legacy lenses on the D2Xs, you have a choice of metered manual or aperture-priority modes. Usually I use the latter; you can dial in more or less exposure if the meter is being fooled. Here, I wanted a slow-ish shutter speed as I waited for a subject to pass under me on a bridge over a motorway. The simplest way of getting that seemed to be to be low ISO (where the D2Xs excels anyway) and a small aperture (f/8 got me into the right arena). I took quite a few pictures and this one was really the only one I liked.

Brunel built bridges for ramblers and farmers and horse riders as well as road users. It's exhausting cataloguing all of them. Nikon D700 + Nikkor-O.C Auto f/2 35mm lens. 200 ISO; f/16; 1/80th.

The London - Bristol main line is being electrified. The visual effect will be great in a village such as this where the railway is carried on a high embankment all the way through the parish. Just to complete the misery, a switching station is being built next to this bridge. Oh joy. Nikon D700 + AF Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 lens.

Earlier this year I bought the Canon 100-300mm USM lens from a secondhand dealer for £49. The dealer warned that it had ‘dusty optics’; if you research the subject of dust in lenses on the web you soon discover that a shovel full of dust in a lens might make a difference to its performance, but a few miniscule specs seldom impair the image. Near where I often buy my groceries there is a recreation ground, and this event was taking place. It seemed too good an opportunity to miss. I have lost count of the number of times I’ve taken a camera ‘just in case’ and for once it was worthwhile. A triumph of hope over experience, as Samuel Johnson remarked, although he was referring to the subject of remarriage, as opposed to habitually taking a camera everywhere. Canon EOS 40D and Canon 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 EF USM lens.

Nikon D2Xs and Tokina SD 50-135mm f/2.8 DX AT-X Pro lens.

Nikkor-H Auto 300mm f/4.5 on a Nikon D2Xs. 1/20th second on a tripod.