The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: telephoto

Nikon D40 + AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED lens at 300mm. The full frame equivalent would be using a lens of 450mm focal length. The effect is to make the perspective appear compressed and packed up. Had I taken this photograph with a wide angle lens instead it would have appeared quite different but the perspective would not have altered. Curiously Bob Newman, who is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wolverhampton, and a photography enthusiast, camera nut, and regular contributor to the magazine 'Amateur Photographer' ('AP') took a more liberal attitude to perspective in 'AP' of 24 August 2019. But think about it: perspective can depend only on where the viewer is and where the thing being viewed is.

Nikon D40 + Nikkor AF-S 70-300mm f4.5-5.6 VR lens. With a DX camera you can get more out of the 70-300mm lens.

Photographed in Avebury, Wiltshire, using a Nikon D2Xs with a Nikon TC-16A teleconverter and a Nikkor-H Auto 300mm f/4.5 lens from around 1971. The TC-16A is compatible with only a small number of cameras and although Nikon doesn’t officially recognise the D2X as one of them, it nevertheless operates successfully. The Nikkor-H has been factory AI converted, making a functional set of instruments never really envisaged to harmonise. The TC-16A adds 1.6x to the lens it is mated with, so in this case the focal length was 480mm. You really need a fast shutter speed and a bit of stabilisation using a rig this long. I put it on a monopod and the shutter speed was 1/1500th. Mostly you’re forced into using maximum aperture and ISO even in decent light. The results can be mediocre, but now and again you get a sensation of unusual packed perspective. Of course, perspective depends on where you stand, not which lens you use, but you might never choose a tiny area of a picture to enlarge and get this view.

Nikon D700 with a Nikkor 180mm AF ED f/2.8 lens on a Tamron MC-4 1.4x teleconverter. The focal length of the lens was thus extended to 252mm.

Lacock, Wiltshire. Cosinon 135mm f/2.8 lens on a Canon EOS 40D digital camera.

Lacock, Wiltshire. Cosinon 135mm f/2.8 lens on a Canon EOS 40D digital camera.

In deference to the unique character of Lacock village, their public telephone kiosk was once painted in a grey colour, but now the standard red colour has replaced it. Cosinon 135mm f/2.8 lens on a Canon EOS 40D digital camera.