The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: cap

This is an old photograph celebrating an old victory, namely getting a free cap. I used a 75-150mm Series E Nikon lens which has since surrendered to mould, or mildew, or fungus. Is there a difference?

Two people walking in step photographed through the classical porch added incongruously to the front of the Georgian building in Corsham housing the Methuen Arms hotel. I used a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 lens on a Canon EOS 20D. This lens is a Tessar design of just four elements and was a lower cost option to a Pentacon equivalent on a Praktica camera in the 1970s. It was slower of course; f/2.8 compared to the Pentacon's f/1.8. Yet in good light the Carl Zeiss was every bit as good, better maybe. Certainly a sharp lens, and capable of closer focussing than many other standard lenses. I bought mine second hand for £12. I doubt if a lens in good working order and engraved with 'Carl Zeiss' could be found cheaper.

Canon EOS 40D + Canon 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 EF USM lens.

Canon EOS 40D + Soligor C/D 28mm f/2.8 lens + Minolta Close-Up lens no.1.

Trowbridge Apple Fair, 2015. Canon EOS 40D + Canon EF 35-135mm f/4-5.6 Ultrasonic lens.

Close up of a Renault baseball cap from the F1 glory days. Nikon D2Xs+ Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI lens.

Photographed with a Nikon D700 and a Nikon 75-150mm Series E f/3.5 lens at full stretch. 500 ISO; 1/125th; f/5.6. These lenses were in production for only four years from 1979. Herbert Keppler tested the 75-150mm lens during the 1980’s and found it to be sharper than the legendary 105mm f/2.5, and sharper than the 105mm Micro-Nikkor. This lens is generally accepted to have been the best of the Series E range; in 'The Nikon Compendium Handbook of the Nikon System' by Rudolf Hillebrand and Hans-Joachim Hauschild, it is remarked, 'The image quality of this NIC-coated lens is so good that it would have fitted perfectly into the Nikkor programme.'

Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor-O.C Auto 35mm f/2 lens, made between October, 1973 and April, 1975, and subsequently modified to AI standard.