The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: zip fastener

The subject is the Korean-made, Domke-inspired, David Bailey-endorsed canvas camera bag. I photographed it with a 35-70mm f/2.8 lens on a Fujifilm Finepix S3 Pro camera. I have owned this bag for several years, having bought it on eBay for £25. I have never seen another like it, which is surprising considering that David Bailey's initials are embroidered into the fabric at the front. Maybe the bag only ever appealed to photographers whose initials were also 'DB'. The design owes a lot to the Domke F-2 bag although there are a few differences in detail, such as an all-round zip in addition to the dog-clip hardware. However, the Domke canvas is soft cotton, whereas the fabric of the David Bailey version is slightly thinner and resolutely synthetic.

Nikon D2Xs and Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

Camera: Canon EOS 30D Lens: Chinon 55mm f/1.4 Supplementary Lens: Minolta Close-Up No. 1

No more heroes any more.

Nikon D3s + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens. 1/100th; f/3.5; 12,500 ISO.

For years the Nikkor-H 50mm f/2 lens was what you got with your new Nikon or Nikkormat camera. It was engineered to standards unimaginable today. Optically it is as good at f/2 as at any other aperture. It was pretty much unrivalled by any other standard prime lens during its period in production.

'Conventional zip fasteners are not really tough enough for Billinghams’ standards. Therefore, they use strong 8mm zips, where the coil teeth are sewn into the supporting tape. Not only is the resultant fastener stronger then a conventional zip, it is also flatter and less prone to abrasion. ' Billingham bag photographed with a Micro-Nikkor f/3.5 55mm AI on a Nikon D2Xs. Gideon Sundbäck, who was born in 1880, invented the zip fastener.