The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: textile

The subject is the Korean-made, Domke-inspired, David Bailey-endorsed canvas camera bag. I photographed it with a 35-70mm f/2.8 lens on a Fujifilm Finepix S3 Pro camera. I have owned this bag for several years, having bought it on eBay for £25. I have never seen another like it, which is surprising considering that David Bailey's initials are embroidered into the fabric at the front. Maybe the bag only ever appealed to photographers whose initials were also 'DB'. The design owes a lot to the Domke F-2 bag although there are a few differences in detail, such as an all-round zip in addition to the dog-clip hardware. However, the Domke canvas is soft cotton, whereas the fabric of the David Bailey version is slightly thinner and resolutely synthetic.

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.

Lens: Chinon 55mm f/1.4. Camera: Canon EOS 30D. The lens is an asymmetrical double-Gauss design. (It is similar to the Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f/1.4 from 1961). It was the creation of Johannes Berger of Zeiss in 1957 and was later licensed to other manufacturers. Amongst these was Tomioka, a Japanese glass manufacturer. Chinon, who made cameras but not lenses, went to Tomioka for a standard fast lens. They decided on this 55mm f/1.4 which initially was engraved with the Tomioka name. Later in the production run the Tomioka name was removed for reasons to do with a change of ownership. But the lens lacking the name is indisputably of Tomioka manufacture, being identical in all other respects and of a distinctive and unusual appearance. There is a bit of a cult around this lens; versions with the Tomioka name are appreciably more expensive to buy secondhand. The double Gauss was maybe the most intensively studied lens formula of the twentieth century producing dozens of major variants, scores of minor variants, hundreds of marketed lenses and tens of millions of unit sales.

Photographed with a Nikon D2Xs and a Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AF-D lens.

Nikon D2Xs and Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di II LD lens (type A16).