The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: laundry

This was taken with a Nikon D700. I used a Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 AF-D lens. ISO 200. 1/320th; f/9.

The lady of this house enjoys reading, makes her own clothes, and is particular over her laundry.

Only red and pink, she said. Fujifilm X-E1 with Fujinon XF 35mm f/1.4 R lens.

In the UK this item is called a clothes peg. In the US it is called a clothes pin. But I never heard of a JPIN. Mario Maccaferri, creator of the Selmer-Maccaferri guitar Django Reinhardt used in the 1930's-1950's, patented two types of plastic clothespin designs in 1947. Thanks to Murray Leshner (known on ipernity as ‘Murrayatuptown’) for this interesting snippet. Lens: Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AF-D.

Lens: Chinon 55mm f/1.4, originally coupled with a Chinon CX SLR of the 1970s where it was a £10 upgrade to the usual f/1.7 lens. This picture was made with the addition of a Minolta Close-Up Lens No.1 to the lens filter mount.

Photographed using a Fujinon 55mm f/2.2 lens in M42 screw mount. Camera: Fujifilm X-E1.

Nikon D3s + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens made sometime between 1992 and 2003. 1/500th at f/10. 210mm. 200 ISO.

Photographed using a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI lens on a Nikon D700.

I used a Canon EOS 30D with a Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens mounted via an EOS - M42 adapter. The lens came with a Praktica MTL5 camera and the two cost me £12.50. The Pentacon f/1.8 50mm is the last version of the Meyer-Optik "Oreston" f/1.8 50mm. It performs better than I had remembered, notwithstanding that using it on the EOS 30D was hopeless for metering the light and I fell back on the "Sunny 16" rule. I was also glad to have Lightroom in which to edit the original RAW image.

And now for some photographs revealing what goes on in Limbo Hall. Nikon D700 and Nikkor-S.C 50mm f/1.4 lens (with a factory AI conversion).

Five years ago I took this photograph using a Nikon 18-70mm lens which I subsequently sold in a clear-out of DX lenses. Quite recently I bought another identical lens to replace it. They are available only secondhand now and the photographic press says they are no longer up to the standard required by new DX cameras of higher megapixel levels.

Photographed with a Nikkor 18-70mm lens on a Nikon D70s just moments before the camera began an electronic hissy fit. Such a shame, because the colour from the D70 is so special. But they are very old and temperamental now, and Nikon have not fitted CCD sensors for years, so replacement with a more recent model seems unlikely. Lens at 70mm. 200 ISO; f/9; 1/100th.

Hanging a newly laundered shirt from the top of the bookcase is a handy way of getting it nicely aired in a room often warmed by sunlight. I bought Fowler's Modern English Usage in a charity shop. There was a 1970s bus ticket inside its pages doing service as a bookmark. I like things from that period. I used a Canon EOS 30D with a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens mounted via a cheap adapter. That lens is also from the 1970s. It has an interesting history. Johannes Berger of Zeiss invented a 55mm f/1.4 Planar lens in 1957. But the design wasn't used for Zeiss lenses, because Erhard Glatzel invented a 50mm f/1.4 Planar lens, which was better. Berger's Planar, an asymmetrical double-Gauss scheme, similar to Nikon’s Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f/1.4 lens of 1961, was 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 got the 55mm f/1.4 (there was also a 55mm f/1.2 supplied in smaller numbers). In appearance, the 55mm f/1.4 closely resembles the more usual offering of a 55mm f/1.7 lens which came with Chinons of that period. Notably, the barrel is all-metal with a strip of thin leather glued on for a focussing grip. The standard of construction is good without equalling Leitz or Nikon quality. Because of the similarity in appearance, some suspect that the f/1.7 version was also a Tomioka product, but that is not proven, whereas the Tomioka involvement in the 1.4 55mm lens is pretty clear. Some of them even have the Tomioka name engraved at the front. Others are identical except for the absence of that information. The versions with the Tomioka name are appreciably more expensive to buy secondhand.

Canon EOS 30D + Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens.

Canon EOS 30D + Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens.

Canon EOS 30D + Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens.