The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: telephone

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.

The instrument was rented. It was provided by G.P.O. Telephones and had to be wired in at your premises by a G.P.O. engineer. It was the same as your neighbour's phone, if your neighbour was a subscriber. The cost prevented many households from such luxury. Thus it was democratic because the instrument was the same for everybody, and you could not jump the queue for getting one put in, but it was a high cost item and limited to those with deep pockets. The photograph shows a 332 telephone. It was standard issue from 1937 to 1959. The subscriber could have it in black. Other colours are rare.

Close up inside a vintage public telephone kiosk on the platform of the East Somerset Railway at Cranmore, Somerset. Photographed with a Nikon D700 and a Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5D lens.

The Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 AI lens provides a field of view of 42 mm on a Nikon DX SLR. All the characteristics of a wide angle lens, such as plenty of depth-of-field, are nevertheless preserved. The f/3.5 maximum aperture is a bit slow but on the plus side performance is good even wide open and impressive when stopped down. The advantage of using it on a crop sensor is that you are experiencing only the centre performance and not much of the fuzzy edges. It's interesting and fun to use a lens which for all practical purposes behaves like something between 35mm and 50mm lenses on a full frame camera. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 AI lens.

I'm sorry you couldn't call me When you got home But other fellows kept on calling While you were gone AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G lens on a Nikon D60.