The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: diary

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The final image from the paperweight project. Photographed with a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm 2.8 lens on a Canon EOS 30D camera. The Tessar design dates back to 1902 and this particular type was launched at the beginning of the 1950s. It is very light and compact with only four elements and is one of the least expensive M42 lenses - mine was £12 five years ago. There is no cheaper way to acquire a Carl Zeiss lens. The minimum focusing distance is 35 cm (a shade under 14 inches). Compare this to the Nikkor-H 50mm f/2 of 1963 which has a minimum focusing distance of a shade under 24 inches, which was reduced to about 18 inches when reconfigured to the AI standard in 1974. The CZJ Tessar is practically macro!

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/2 AI lens from circa 1978.

Introduced circa 1956. Blue marble.

The sketch partly obscured by the yellow pencil left carelessly on top of it was reproduced in a newspaper recently. It is by Edward Burne-Jones and titled ‘Study Of A Female Head To The Right’ (1889). Burne-Jones was married to Georgiana MacDonald who developed a close friendship with William Morris when Burne-Jones had a passionate affair with his Greek model Maria Zambaco. Morris was married to Jane Burden who became closely attached to Dante Gabriel Rossetti who was married to Elizabeth Siddal. The Pre-Raphaelites were active in many respects. Nikon D50 and AF-S DX 35mm f/1.8 G Nikkor lens.

A book covered with the small ads page of the 'Evening Standard' of Thursday, April 7th, 1966, with other bits pasted on top: 'river plunge kills seven' from the 'Daily Express' of Tuesday, April 30th, 1968; a sticker of Picasso's 'Buste de Femme au Chapeau', a linocut from 1962 which I dared to modify; a photograph of a girl on a lone peace campaign I once saw when visiting Lacock Abbey, a strange place to make a protest, but a welcome sight nevertheless. All these things have somehow come together with the help of Pritt stick and watercolours. Photographed with a Chinon 55mm f/1.7 lens on a Canon EOS 30D.