The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Canon EOS30D

The seemingly inexorable decline of these gates is a subject of morbid fascination. People pass by hundreds of times daily noticing to varying degrees the ineffable beauty of their final days, wondering if some human intervention will change the scene for better or worse. Meanwhile, I am compelled by forces I do not understand to record the changes, tiny though they be. Canon EOS 30D + 18-55mm kit lens. ISO 200; 45mm (72mm equivalent). 1/250th at f/13.

Low light. Moving subject. Manual focus. ISO 1600; f/1.4; 1/40th sec. Tomioka-made Chinon 55mm f/1.4 on a Canon EOS 30D. Strangely wonderful.

The first conveyorized automatic car washes were apparently introduced in the late 1930s. They have a bad reputation for dislodging aerials and wing mirrors, and scratching paintwork - I don't know if it is deserved or not. I have noticed many 'hand car washes' springing up. I don't patronise them either. I have a bucket and a sponge and a hosepipe. It's therapeutic.

Canon EOS 30D and EF 35-135mm f/4-5.6 USM lens.

I never saw hinges like those anywhere else.

Just don't.

Before I became a photographer I never noticed such detail as this. Canon EOS 30D and EF 35-135mm f/4-5.6 USM lens.

Walking along this street you see front doors and wheelie bins. The various architectural styles and materials are much more evident from a distance. Canon EOS 30D and EF 35-135mm f/4-5.6 USM lens.

Canon EOS 30D and EF 35-135mm f/4-5.6 USM lens.

I used a long-discontinued Canon EOS 30D with a cheap secondhand 18-55mm kit lens for this picture. It's not a lightweight camera, but it is the lightest I've got, and I had some shopping to do. I probably need a compact camera, or a mirrorless, but the only type I am comfortable using is the SLR. It first became popular around 1960 (the SLR, not the Canon EOS 30D) and its been pre-eminent for almost 60 years. But its day is done, and I lament its inevitable decline and forthcoming marginalisation into some expensive photographic ghetto. The Canon EOS 30D is a light-tight box with everything I need. I don't want geographical positioning, or immediate internet connection, nor can I not manage without articulated viewing screens and something called 'live view'. I paid about £60 for the camera and subsequently bought its successor, the EOS 40D, believing it would be even better. It wasn't, and I got rid of it. One of my main gripes was that it wasn't even as comfortable to hold, and its menu system was Byzantine compared to the simplicity of the 30D.

The previous colours of a door are fascinating.

There's something unusually tactile about using these original Nikon F bayonet lenses from the pre-AI era. It is satisfying just to twiddle the focus ring until things look right instead of battling the AF and eventually turning it off. Of course, I don't photograph games or sport. if I did, I'd surely embrace all the advantages of the modern lens technology. Photographed with an old M42 screw-thread lens - the Chinon 55mm f/1.4 - on a Canon EOS 30D.

A shop in Old Orchard Street, Bath, Somerset: a quiet part of a busy city. Photographed with a Canon EOS 30D and a tired old Canon EF35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 lens.