Tools

Photographed with a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens mounted on a Canon EOS 30D via an EOS-M42 adapter.

During the 1970s amateur photography was dominated by the 50mm lens, partly because that's what came with the new camera you bought, partly because a different or additional lens cost as much as a secondhand car, and mostly because it delivered satisfactory results. You can photograph most things with a 50mm and no 50mm is bad; there are only grades of excellence. This photograph was made with a Nikkor 50mm f/2 on a Nikon D700. It is a modest little thing of quite stupendous resolving ability.

And now for some photographs revealing what goes on in Limbo Hall. What you see here is the tightening-up, slacking-off, fixing-up, and expletives department HQ. Nikon D700 and Nikkor 50mm f/2 AI lens.

Nikon D2Xs and Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens. That oblong red-coloured thing is a fob attached to a set of keys with a handy interchangeable label indicating what they will open. I mention this only because after posting the picture I had to go to the drawer and have a look, being unable to work it out from the photograph.

Chaka Demus was out of town when this studio session was hastily arranged.

It's a three-man job.