Category Archives: Ricoh I’m not sure that it ever stops, really stops, raining here. And if it does, there is enough water in the ground to turn everything into quagmire so you get soaked from the feet up. Mud is everywhere. It is lucky The Dog likes a bath. That may be a raindrop over the apex of…  Ola! We’re ‘Up North’. Near to the Yorkshire Dales and an apparently disputed hinterland between Lancashire and Yorkshire. The 1965 reorganisation of boundaries seems to have achieved what the Wars of the Roses failed to do. Must have been seismic. The guy renting the cottage rembembers it as if it was yesterday. Perhaps I shouldn’t…  There will now be a short interlude while I test the GXR on some already well tested subjects with some already well tested lenses just so I can get a baseline feel for the camera. Today I was using the A12 M Mount with the Voigtlander Super Wide Heliar 15/4.5. Of course, it isn’t super…  Hmmm, maybe I need a break from photographing inside Nunhead Cemetery. However, I wanted to test the Ricoh GXR c/w the A12 50/2.5 APS-C ‘lensor’ unit. The main reason for getting the GXR (pour moi) is the A12 Leica ‘M’ mount unit which is currently about as easy to find in the UK as hen’s…  Most of the Deptford bloggers including me have written about the containerisation of this end of the borough. Every scrap of land seems to be ‘under construction’ and each development has an achingly boring similar unimaginative concrete and grey-glass Galliard ‘house style’. Before The wasteland by Margaret McMillan Court has recently been fenced prior to… |
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