The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Panama hat

A photograph of the interior of Qudos restaurant, Salisbury, taken with a Nikon FE and a Vivitar 19mm f/3.5 Ai lens. The lens was made for Vivitar by Cosina. Photograph taken sometime between April and July 2011, being the brief period I owned the Nikon FE.

A warm June day. A Panama hat is parked on a handy garden fork. Red Valerian in the foreground, open shed door behind. Nikon D700 and Nikkor 28-105mm f3.5-4.5D lens. Bjørn Rørslett comments favourably on this lens, remarking that it delivers very sharp images. Geometric distortion, often quite nasty on consumer lenses, is kept under impressively strict control. Curvature of field is insignificant, thus allowing the lens to capture buildings and other flat subjects in sharp focus across the entire frame even at wide aperture settings. Macro mode, where the lens will focus to around 1:2 (half life-size), is quite impressive. Even more impressive is the excellent optical rendtion of the close-ups, with colour fringing kept well under control. Rørslett concludes that the 28-105 justifies its popularity by delivering quality results in a small, handy package, and says it would constitute a perfect travel lens if you can live with the angle of view of a 28mm.

Testing a Helios-44 f/2 lens, using it on a Canon EOS 30D camera. This lens is a Soviet copy of the Carl Zeiss Biotar. Millions were manufactured and there are many different versions, including M42 screw mount and Pentax K mount. It is 58mm focal length. Maximum aperture is f2, minimum f16. It is considered a very good lens and it is not hard to find. The '44' is just a model number and has nothing to do with the focal length. My early version has a 49mm filter size; in later versions this was changed to 52mm. When I first used one of these lenses, it was an auto type with a pin which communicated with the companion Zenit camera to shut down the aperture from wide open (for focussing) to the selected detent. This earlier version is a preset type with 2 aperture rings. You set the desired f stop with one ring, and then use the other to open wide for easier focusing and composition. When ready, you turn the second ring clockwise and it closes to the pre selected aperture.

Photographed with a Canon EOS 30D and a Canon EF 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 lens at 100mm. f/9 and 1/125th at 800 ISO. Available light.