The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G

Green Lane Wood. Nikon D2Xs and AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens.

A good deal depends on photo editing, which generally improves as new products are released. What you can't achieve using one editing program you can often accomplish with another. I have not the faintest idea why this is so. Ipernity used to provide a free version of picmonkey which I enjoyed using for its effects. Since its removal I have used another editor freely offered elsewhere when all else has failed. This photo from 2010 was only ever a JPG and the kit used - secondhand and outdated even then - was extremely basic by current standards. I never thought such detail could be recovered, especially the cafe interior. Old Owl has advised caution over deleting one's photographs. Pay heed, I say.

Nikon D50 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens.

Photographed in Burlands Road, Chippenham with a Nikon D50 and AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens. A super lightweight kit.

Nikon D50 and AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens. A fabulously lightweight kit, a bit short of wide-angle capability but very inexpensive to acquire. The D50 remains the only entry-level Nikon digital camera equipped with screw drive capability for the earlier generation of AF Nikkor lenses which lacked their own motor.

Nikon D2Xs and AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens.

The preceding nine photographs in this series aren't all as horribly blurred as this one. In fact, one of them is quite sharp. This is the result of using too slow a shutter speed. It's not entirely motion blur because there wasn't an earth tremor at that moment. I ought to have used a camera capable of higher ISO, or a fast lens, or both. But I didn't have those options so I used a Nikon D50 with a Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 AF G lens whilst waiting to meet the 16.23 at Westbury station. Claude Monet noticed that slow shutter speed blurred moving figures and was inspired deliberately to smudge his painting to achieve this blurry effect. Bravo M. Monet! And Bravo The Limbo Connection!

Billingham 550 Khaki-Tan camera bag as foreground interest. The Billingham 550 camera bag was introduced in 1983 as a reworking of the 1979 System 1 bag, the first soft camera bag manufactured in Britain. It has remained in continuous production. It is a bag much favoured by professional photographers. The bag is made of canvas and leather, and internally there is nylon covered padding. It is spacious enough to hold at least two camera bodies with a full load of lenses and other accessories. Doing that would, of course, be a mistake. You would end up with an over-stuffed bag which was too heavy to carry and too full to find what you wanted. The bag alone weighs over two and a half kilos. It’s a specialised, well-made and stylish piece of luggage. You can attach additional pockets at either end. I prefer to leave my pair at home. They make the bag look too long. One reason professional photographers like it is its internal height of 10 inches which allows tall lenses and hammerhead flashguns to be stowed upright. Another reason might be the fairly slim profile compared, for example, to a box-like Billingham 555, or indeed any of the Billingham five series which tend to hang from the shoulder four-square like wooden cabinets (and they’ll always do this if they’re filled to capacity). Many camera bags are built square and get in everybody’s way. The 550 will get in everybody’s way anyhow, despite not being square. It’s just generally big. Access is a bit awkward but in my experience that is a general criticism of Billingham bags and a concomitant of high standards of gear-protection. To carry it by hand you have to do up the straps which secure the cover to the bag, which is a nuisance. The only other criticism is the price. Mine is second-hand, with plenty of wear left in it, yet it cost more than many new bags. If you want a real fright, look up the cost of a new one. Don’t confuse it with the 555. Google ‘Billingham 550’. Be sure you’re sitting down when you do this. The photograph was made using some quite cheap second-hand kit: an AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens on a Nikon D50.

The camera bag is a Billingham 550 model. The Billingham 550 camera bag was introduced in 1983 as a reworking of the 1979 System 1 bag, the first soft camera bag manufactured in Britain. It has remained in continuous production. It is a bag much favoured by professional photographers. The bag is made of canvas and leather, and internally there is nylon covered padding. It is spacious enough to hold at least two camera bodies with a full load of lenses and other accessories. Doing that would, of course, be a mistake. You would end up with an over-stuffed bag which was too heavy to carry and too full to find what you wanted. The bag alone weighs over two and a half kilos. It’s a specialised, well-made and stylish piece of luggage. You can attach additional pockets at either end. I prefer to leave my pair at home. They make the bag look too long. One reason professional photographers like it is its internal height of 10 inches which allows tall lenses and hammerhead flashguns to be stowed upright. Another reason might be the fairly slim profile compared, for example, to a box-like Billingham 555, or indeed any of the Billingham five series which tend to hang from the shoulder four-square like wooden cabinets (and they’ll always do this if they’re filled to capacity). Many camera bags are built square and get in everybody’s way. The 550 will get in everybody’s way anyhow, despite not being square. It’s just generally big. Access is a bit awkward but in my experience that is a general criticism of Billingham bags and a concomitant of high standards of gear-protection. To carry it by hand you have to do up the straps which secure the cover to the bag, which is a nuisance. The only other criticism is the price. Mine is second-hand, with plenty of wear left in it, yet it cost more than many new bags. If you want a real fright, look up the cost of a new one. Don’t confuse it with the 555. Google ‘Billingham 550’. Be sure you’re sitting down when you do this. The camera is a Nikon D700 and the lens is a Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD. This lens was in production from 1992 to 2003. The photograph was made using some quite cheap second-hand kit: an AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens on a Nikon D50.

Weymouth Harbour. Nikon D50 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens.

Nikon D50 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens.

Nikon D50 and AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens.

It could be any town in England where the council prevents the people who have paid for the public lavatory from using the amenity. In this case it is Melksham, Wiltshire. Shame on the council. You are a disgrace. www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/1273240.0/?act=complaint&cid=145755 Nikon D50 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens.

River Avon, Melksham, Wiltshire. Nikon D50 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens.

Nikon D50 and AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens.

Nikon D50 photographed with another Nikon D50 with an AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens.

AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G on a Nikon D50.