The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: prayer book

I bought a Zenit-E to get the Helios-44 lens which was with it. This is the original lens that the Soviets copied from the Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 58mm f/2. It's a pre-set lens and takes a bit of getting used to. Received wisdom is to shoot it wide open at f/2 for the distinctive bokeh, but the contrast suffers when you do this. At f/5.6 it becomes a nicer lens to use. The Prayer Book is Victorian, although the year of printing is not given by Cambridge University Press. Nor is the typeface. I should have liked to know both, but for £2 secondhand I can't really complain.

I discovered this yellowed bookmark in an old prayer book in a second hand bookshop. It records through a newspaper announcement the death of a soldier engaged in the British campaign to relieve Ladysmith in January, 1900. The Manders family lived at Castlesize, Sallins, County Kildare. Nikon D700 + Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 Di VC lens.