The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: daffodils

A wet day in the grounds of a large National Health hospital. Nikon D2Xs and Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AF lens on a Nikon D2Xs, which provided a field of view equivalent to 35mm on full frame. 100 ISO; f/6.7; 1/180th.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/2 AI lens made sometime between 1977 and 1979. During the 1970s it was implicit that when you bought a single lens reflex camera it came with a 50mm or 55mm lens. Keen photographers subsequently added a wide angle prime lens (usually 28mm) and a telephoto prime lens (usually 135mm). On the day I photographed these daffodils I took those three lenses. Yet after taking this picture I switched to the 28mm and then the 135mm. I have noticed this before: the 50mm is a great lens but is not my preferred focal length and the best way of getting the good of it is not to pack any other lenses. The Nikkor-H f/2 dates from 1963 and was in production for 16 years. The design is an orthodox Gaussian configuration of six elements in four groups. The Nikkor-H.C indicates only a new lens coating and was introduced in 1972. Later - in 1974 - a better lens coating was introduced, along with a rubber focussing sleeve and a diamond pattern ridged aperture ring. Minimum focus was reduced to 45cm from the previous 60cm and the H.C designation was dropped. The lens was now known simply as the Nikkor 50mm f/2. Nikon classified it as a ‘K’ version. It lasted until 1977 when the lens was modified to AI standard, but remained the same in all other respects. The AI version continued until January 1979, having been superseded by the slightly faster f/1.8 version in 1978. The design of that lens has six elements in five groups.

Canon EOS 30D with an old Soligor C/D 28mm Wide-Auto f/2.8 lens via an M42 adapter.

Canon EOS 30D with an old Soligor C/D 28mm Wide-Auto f/2.8 lens via an M42 adapter. Like Vivitar, Soligor did not manufacture lenses. Instead they specified the optical configuration they wanted and invited bids from Japanese lens makers. This particular lens was to the premium C/D ('computer designed') standard and was made by Sun in 1980 (you can tell this by its serial number). Within a few years the market for M42 screw thread lenses had declined as third party suppliers like Soligor followed the bayonet lens standard.

Canon EOS 30D + Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens.

Canon EOS 30D and Canon EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens.

Of course, they may be narcissi, in which case the reference is up the chute, as Wordsworth might have remarked. f/14 to get it all in focus.

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Steeple Ashton. Canon EOS 30D and EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens.

Easter daffodils in a Poole Pottery vase from the 1970s photographed with a Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 AI lens (made sometime between 1977 and 1981} mounted on a Fuji S3 Pro camera at 200 ISO.

A Poole Pottery vase from the 1970s hosting a bunch of daffodils for Easter, 2014. Photographed with a Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 AI lens on a Fuji S3 Pro camera.