The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5

This photograph from July, 2016, has been posted before, and I happened to bump into it when looking for something else. The chromatic aberration was awful. I'm guessing that was partly due to using the ancient Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens. I attempted to clean it up (the photograph, not the lens). Now it's a bit like the curate's egg: good in parts. Which is simply a diplomatic way of saying 'terrible'. Photographed with a Nikon D700.

Posted previously, but this is a brighter edit. My recent visit to Avebury on 4 October, 2018, reminds me of this scene photographed almost exactly three years before. The light at this time of year can be compelling if the clouds allow the sun to illuminate the stones. Nikon D2Xs + Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens on a TC-16A teleconverter.

Photographed suspended from a tree at Avebury stone circle, Wiltshire, using a Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens on a TC-16A teleconverter mounted on a Nikon D2Xs.

Nikon D700 + Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens with a Nikon No. 4T Close-Up attachment.

Several years ago I bought the jacket in the photograph in a sale for £10. That was surely a portent for what was to follow. In April, 2016, after years of falling sales, mounting debts and cash flow problems, Austin Reed fell into administration. No viable offers were received for the business. 120 stores closed and 1,000 jobs were lost. Austin Reed was founded by tailor Austin Leonard Reed (1873-1954). The company started as a tailoring business in the City of London in 1900, selling off-the-rack suits that could pass as made-to-measure. The retailer once counted prominent and well-to-do men, including Winston Churchill, as customers. Much later, it counted less prominent and less well-to-do men, including The Limbo Connection, as bargain-hunters. The writing was unfortunately on the wall. Nikon D700 and Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens.

Nikon D700 and Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens.

Nikon D700 + Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens with a Nikon No. 4T Close-Up attachment.

Nikon D2Xs + Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens on a TC-16A teleconverter. I set the lens at 150mm, and allowing for the teleconverter made a focal length of 240mm.

Nikon D2Xs + Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens on a TC-16A teleconverter.

Summer's almost gone We had some good times But they're gone The winter's coming on Summer's almost gone. (The Doors, 'Waiting for the Sun' LP, 1968) Nikon D700 + Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens.

'Land of hope and gloria Land of my Victoria ...' The Kinks, Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire), 1969. Kennet and Avon canal at Devizes. Nikon D700 + Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens.

Photographed using a Canon EOS 30D with a Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens.