The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8

Nikon D2Xs with AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Avebury road sign. AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 on a Nikon D2Xs.

Communication Ancient & Modern. Even when I owned a better camera than the Nikon D50 I continued to use the lesser of the two. It was light in weight and I didn't fret over what might happen to it - they were easily replaced at little cost on the secondhand market. Nothing ever did happen to it, though. It was quite a sturdy instrument. The pictures it made had good colour characteristics. People ascribe this to its CCD sensor. That type of sensor had been superseded by CMOS technology which initially produced a flatter, slightly clinical, sort of picture. I rather liked what came out of the D50 and years later bought a very inexpensive D40 which was specified with the same CCD sensor. Manufacturers preferred CMOS largely because it was cheaper to produce and it seemed to take some years before CMOS technology had a bit of photographic soul about it. Some might argue that it's still inferior. The photo was taken with a Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AF lens, which behaved like a 35mm focal length on the crop sensor of the D50.

Photographed from the bridge over the Avon with a Nikon D2Xs and a AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Nikon D2Xs + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

There was once a timber-built halt here which provided a railway service for the village between 1926 and 1965. The Beeching cuts did away with it. The village has since grown quite considerably, though not enough to justify a train stop yet. Even Corsham, a much more populous village some ten miles down the line from here, and which also lost its railway service to Beeching's vandalism, cannot breathe life into their ambitions to restore trains to their community. Nikon D700 + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Nikon D50 + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Nikon D50 + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens. A 24mm lens on a crop sensor camera like the D50 gives a similar field of view to a 35mm lens on a full-frame camera. It's a get-in-close, almost intimate, experience for photographer and subject alike.

Bath, Somerset: a wet day at the start of August. Nikon D50 + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Bath, Somerset: a wet day at the start of August. Nikon D50 + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Bath, Somerset: a wet day at the start of August. Nikon D50 + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Bath, Somerset: a wet day at the start of August. Nikon D50 + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Bath, Somerset: a wet day at the start of August. Nikon D50 + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Dangerous work. Nikon D700 and AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Nikon D700 + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Nikon D50 + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

The George at Sandy Lane, between Chippenham and Devizes. Built circa 1720. Nikon D700 + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.