The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: kit lens

Canon EOS 30D + 18-55mm kit lens.

Today I successfully weeded a small border with a three pronged hoe. This kind of industry on my part is rare, and so I thought I ought to record it. Canon EOS 30D with an 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens. ISO 100; f/5.6; 1/200th, lens at 22mm (field of view equivalent 35mm).

This photograph was made at the back of a Magnet Joinery store which is close to a doctors' surgery. There may or may not be a connection.

I am inexplicably drawn to Magnet.

We examined moss and collected some leaves and twigs. We found a tree with a hole in it and posted a leaf in the hole. There were more twigs and sticks on the ground than we could handle. We put two of the best ones in a space between the branches of a tree. One of us got our hair in our mouth and needed help in redirecting it. We made footprints in the mud and discussed some graffiti on a fence panel, not in a judgmental way, only in an effort to reach an understanding of what it was meant to represent. Later we found a deep puddle left by a car parked on a grass verge. We splashed in it and made more footprints in the mud at the edges. Most of the other puddles had dried up, which was disappointing. We put some small nature things through holes in a chain link fence. Then we saw a yellow van, and some people with a dog. The dog was very interesting. Eventually we got back indoors and told everyone what we had seen. They seemed unenthused. Perhaps they should have come with us.

Trophies: a twig, and a leaf.

Ballito advertisement, early 1970s. There was a picture as well which I have not bothered with.

1/15th sec.

Pelican crossing on a relief road that divides a whole street community, Steps lead down to it on both sides - not too good for the old and infirm. For years the greater part of the community was separated from its local pub by the new road. Later the pub was closed, which might or might not have happened anyway. Our dependence on motorised transport has turned us into vandals. Pelican crossings originated in the UK and were introduced in 1969.

Male mallard.

Today I am mostly using a cheap secondhand Canon camera to record pattern and texture before the Brumal weather deities send their white winter cloaks to conceal and silence my nooks and crannies.

Today I am mostly using a cheap secondhand Canon camera to record pattern and texture before the Brumal weather deities send their white winter cloaks to conceal and silence my nooks and crannies.

Whilst leafing through an old 'Nova' magazine, it fell open at an unusual angle where the right-hand page was an advertisement for a Volvo car. The left-hand page being a stronger image, I converted it to black and white and increased contrast. However, the best part of the car advertisement - the couple admiring the car - somehow became isolated and more interesting.

The dress was such a strong component in this advertisement from the 1960s that it was easy to make its occupant fade in significance via a few judicious shunts of the sliders in the processing software.

I used a long-discontinued Canon EOS 30D with a cheap secondhand 18-55mm kit lens for this picture. It's not a lightweight camera, but it is the lightest I've got, and I had some shopping to do. I probably need a compact camera, or a mirrorless, but the only type I am comfortable using is the SLR. It first became popular around 1960 (the SLR, not the Canon EOS 30D) and its been pre-eminent for almost 60 years. But its day is done, and I lament its inevitable decline and forthcoming marginalisation into some expensive photographic ghetto. The Canon EOS 30D is a light-tight box with everything I need. I don't want geographical positioning, or immediate internet connection, nor can I not manage without articulated viewing screens and something called 'live view'. I paid about £60 for the camera and subsequently bought its successor, the EOS 40D, believing it would be even better. It wasn't, and I got rid of it. One of my main gripes was that it wasn't even as comfortable to hold, and its menu system was Byzantine compared to the simplicity of the 30D.