Photo 150 "2022" - Howard_S

C: Prime


The High A7 III and Samyang 35mm AF F2.8 | f/8.0 | 1/1000s | ISO 100

One of the classic views of Oxford, emulating the painting by John Turner in 1830. In sequence here on the right you see the spire of St Mary's, that of All Saints (now Lincoln College Library), and Carfax Tower (at the time of the painting this was the tower of St Martn's church, since demolished).

B: This week in 2008


Gargoyles A100 and unknown lens | f/7.1 | @135.0 mm | 1/500s | ISO 200

On 30 March 2008 I was in Somerset and these are some gargoyles on Babcary church.

Edited by Howard_S - 08 April 2022 at 10:03

Week 14

A: Creative


Balloon dog shapes A7 + LA-EA4 + 85mm F2.8 SAM | f/4.0 | 1/200s | ISO 100

Week 14 hasn't been hugely inspirational for me. I've been at the tail-end of isolating but am otherwise OK. I popped out one day and saw these over-sized pop-art sculptures installed in the Westgate Centre at the behest of a nearby 'fine art' gallery. These Jeff Koons knock-offs are by someone who styles himself as #whathisname. The same gallery is selling Bob Dylan paintings (reproductions I imagine) at £13,800 a pop.

I'm working up the courage to show the in my view NSFW view of the red stretching sausage dog which if unintentional is a hoot.

In the meantime I took this view across the two structures, blurred and desaturated the background leaving a very mild Orton Effect.

C: Prime


Minolta Dynax 7000i with PB-7 A7 + LA-EA4 + 85mm F2.8 SAM | f/4.0 | 1/100s | ISO 2500

@alanfrombangor kindly donated this body to go to one of the Oxford Oxfam stores. I tested it with film, and you'll see samples in the Oxford DM thread. I was pleased to get the program back working - fitting the batteries was easy - and joy of joys - the date function goes happily into the 21st century.

Old film bodies don't generally command high prices, but the PB-7 takes this one out of the crowd and I think we can price it at £19.99 for some lucky collector out there.

Thanks, Pieter. One of my projects is to revive the Program Super 90 Back for my Maxxum 9000 and to see if (a) I can get it to work and (b) understand how to operate it. It apparently does date and data printing 'along the right edge of the frame in the area normally covered by a slide mount'.

Howard_S wrote: Thanks, Pieter. One of my projects is to revive the Program Super 90 Back for my Maxxum 9000 and to see if (a) I can get it to work and (b) understand how to operate it. It apparently does date and data printing 'along the right edge of the frame in the area normally covered by a slide mount'.

That sounds very interesting and more useful. Hope you get it to work.

B: This week in 2010


Planet Headington: clear skies over Oxford II A100 and 18-70 kit lens

Moving forward a week from last time I find that I made 'A polar coordinates distortion (or Planet) view of the sky over Oxford. A 360-degree panorama of 11 vertical format pictures taken at 18mm on an A100; stitched in PSE7; and converted using the polar coordinates filter.

This was at the time of the Eyjafjallajokull eruption in Iceland which shutdown a lot of transatlantic flights.