The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Pentacon

In ipernity groups, if you are the member with the second-greatest number of photographs and the top dog is expelled for smoking behind the bike sheds, you get bumped up to administrator like it or not. Like nearly all organisations, ipernity is hierarchical and defiance is ultimately useless. This has happened to me twice and each time only a handful of people were left in membership of the group and not all of them had posted any pix for ages. This is the problem with creating groups: eventually old age, attrition, being skint, losing interest, becoming mired in Highland Toffee, amnesia, illness, kidnapping by aliens, you name it, the result is a group existing more or less in name only. So: using my newly-acquired powers I have given my latest group, the 50mm group, a new banner, and thus energised all the ordinary members (two people from Australia) will get posting, and hundreds of new people who use 50mm lenses will emerge and enlist. Yeah, that’s what’s gonna happen.

You know where you are with a 50mm lens. It's a good reference point for anything else you might need, or think you might need. (Often you don't need anything else). If there is a poor 50mm lens, I have yet to hear of it. A few are overpriced but for the most part they are cheap, and excellent gatherers of light. Photographed with an AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens on a Nikon D700 at 200 ISO. 3 seconds exposure at f/16. Cropped to remove an extraneous road atlas. I guess that the availability of sat nav and digital maps means that the once ubiquitous road atlas has pretty much gone the way of the Praktica camera. Anyway, I didn't want it competing for attention in this picture.

Canon EOS 40D + Pentacon Auto f/1.8 50mm lens.

Girl in the Bishop's Palace Gardens at Wells photographed with a Canon EOS 20D and a Pentacon 135mm f/2.8 lens.

This sturdy East German pre set lens was in production from 1963 until 1990. However, it was redesignated as a Pentacon following the merger of Meyer-Optik with Pentacon in 1971, when it was given auto diaphragm capability. At some point in the production run the number of iris blades was reduced from 15 to six, presumably as an economy measure. This occurred during the 'Pentacon' years. The original Orestegor with its 15 blades is known as the 'bokeh monster' because the blades form an almost perfect circle. Obviously that sort of geometry is impossible with only six blades in the diaphragm. Photographed with a Canon EOS 40D and a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens.

Canon EOS 40D + Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens.

A Praktica MTL5 camera pictured by a Nikon D2Xs with a Nikon DX AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G lens.

Graham Rawle's novel and a Praktica MTL 5 camera photographed using a Nikon D700 with a Nikkor O-C. 35mm f/2 lens. Aperture-priority f/11; 1/100th sec; 6400 ISO.

Photographed near Lacock, Wiltshire, with a Canon EOS 20D camera and a Pentacon M42 50mm f/1.8 lens from a Praktica MTL5 camera.

Photographed with a Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens on a Canon EOS 20D camera.

Close detail of a tin of Huntley and Palmer's assortment of cocktail biscuits. It once - long ago - contained tasty cheese footballs, and other exciting cheesy biscuits flavoured with celery, onion, tomato, and plenty of salt. I used a Canon EOS20D with a Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens augmented by three supplementary cheap close-up lenses screwed into the filter recess.