The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Nikon Series E

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.

Photographed with a Nikon D2Xs fitted with a Nikon TC-16A teleconverter and a 75-150mm f/3.5 Series E lens. With the teleconverter, the lens becomes a 120-240mm f/5.6. On the cropped sensor, the field of view is therefore 180-360mm - not bad for a dinky lightweight lens taking a 52mm filter. The Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 lens is generally accepted to have been the best of the Series E range; in 'The Nikon Compendium Handbook of the Nikon System' by Rudolf Hillebrand and Hans-Joachim Hauschild, it is remarked, 'The image quality of this NIC-coated lens is so good that it would have fitted perfectly into the Nikkor programme.' This lens was available only from 1979 to 1983, being discontinued because the market was demanding zoom lenses with greater reach.

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

Avebury stone circle, Wiltshire. Tightly framed for perspective effect with a Nikon TC-16A teleconverter between a Nikon D2Xs and a Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 series E zoom lens at full stretch. Thus the field of view was about 360mm using full-frame as the yardstick.

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

Photographed with a Nikon D700 and a Nikon 75-150mm Series E f/3.5 lens at full stretch. 500 ISO; 1/125th; f/5.6. These lenses were in production for only four years from 1979. Herbert Keppler tested the 75-150mm lens during the 1980’s and found it to be sharper than the legendary 105mm f/2.5, and sharper than the 105mm Micro-Nikkor. This lens is generally accepted to have been the best of the Series E range; in 'The Nikon Compendium Handbook of the Nikon System' by Rudolf Hillebrand and Hans-Joachim Hauschild, it is remarked, 'The image quality of this NIC-coated lens is so good that it would have fitted perfectly into the Nikkor programme.'

I have attached a Nikon Series E Zoom 75-150mm f/3.5 lens to a Nikon D2Xs via an AF Teleconverter TC-16A. According to my calculations, that provides a lens working in a 120-240mm focal range, and a field of view on APS-C format of 180-360mm. If I deploy the hi-speed crop mode on the D2Xs I get a field of view of 240-480mm at a reduced pixel count.