The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: trade mark

I like blue jeans. They're tough and practical. Best of all, a wallet in one of the front pockets stays put. No other trousers seem to offer this absolute assurance. Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 lens on a Nikon D3s at 200 ISO; 1/250th; f/8.

Photographed with a Nikkor 28mm f/2 lens.

Irrespective of whether I use the 35-70mm on a full frame or a crop sensor camera, I strongly favour the maximum telephoto setting. I might as well just fit an 85mm and shoot with that.

I return to the Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 lens because its fidelity is so fine. It can also focus close enough to almost qualify as a macro lens. Used here on a Nikon D3s at 200 ISO; 1/250th; f/8. I find this lens to be just as useful - if not more so - on the Nikon D2Xs, and that is because the D2x series was excellent in every way but one: it was poor at ISO levels beyond 400. But put a fast lens with image stabilisation on it and you never need to go into murky ISO levels.

Photographed with a Nikon D700 fitted with a Nikkor 50mm f/2 AI lens. This is a wonderful and simple lens with origins as ancient as Stonehenge. I got rid of my 50/1.8 (its successor) because this f/2 version has more soul. It's one of the last in the manufacturing line and has the AI capability, but is basically a cosmetically improved Nikkor-H. Not actually as pretty as the Nikkor-H but just as nice to use.

Accidental household signposting. Nikon D2Xs and Nikkor-H 85mm f/1.8 lens. A handy nearby stepladder used for the viewpoint.

Photographed with a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 Tessar lens on a Canon EOS 30D via an adapter, with an extension tube between camera and lens. ISO 800, 1/100th, and the lens close to, if not right on, maximum aperture. That is f/2.8 on the humble Tessar.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens at 40mm. 200 ISO; 1/160th; f/2.8.