The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Fox Talbot

Nikon D700 and Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 AF-G lens. Camera at 400 ISO and 1/640th. Lens at 28mm and f/3.3. The Nikon 28-80mm G lens weighs seven ounces (190g) and is a testament to what can be done with 21st century plastics technology and sticky tape. It boasts a compound aspherical element. I don’t know what that is, but it seems to work nicely. I bought this lens two-and-a-half years ago for £39 with a guarantee from a dealer. They probably go cheaper on internet auction sites despite Ken Rockwell inflating their value by revealing their optical capability. Think how much better the photograph above might have been if I'd concentrated on what I was doing and stopped the aperture down a couple of f/stops.

Everyone visiting Lacock Abbey with a camera is duty bound to take a photograph of this window which Fox Talbot photographed during 1835 by means of a very long exposure with a camera positioned on the mantelpiece opposite.

Close up of an optical instrument displayed in the grounds of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Reminiscent of art by Bridget Riley. Nikon D2Xs and Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI lens.

Viewed from the inside. With modern cameras, one click and you're finished. Fox Talbot would have set his camera up on a handy mantel shelf opposite to the window and the exposure would have been several minutes.

Fox Talbot knew this scene. He may even have photographed it. Photographed with a Nikon D700 and a Nikkor O.C 35mm f/2 lens, factory converted to AI capability.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, photographed with a Nikon D700 and a 50mm standard lens.

It looks aged enough to be a door once used by the pioneer of photography. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI lens.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro + Nikon DX AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G lens.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. The crucible of photography - William Henry Fox Talbot, who invented the calotype process, lived and worked here. It has been a location for the Harry Potter movies; other films have been shot in the village. The museum, gardens and village are probably more interesting than the house, and the home-made cake in the tea rooms is worth the visit alone. However, the light in this corridor seemed worth making a photograph. The Abbey was founded in 1229. In 1539, following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was converted into a house and the abbey church was demolished. The cloisters survived underneath the new development. About 1550 an octagonal tower was added. Further extensive alterations were made in the 1750s, as evidenced by the chimneys being evacuated to the garden and converted into columns supporting a sphinx. Nikon D2Xs and AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G lens.

Nikon D2Xs and AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G lens.