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My photo club had a photo walk in Nottingham last night, I walked up taking in the new Central Library as I did so.

Had a wander round Retford for a few hours yesterday. This is the bus station.

Finally tooled up to do macro with Sony, albeit via adapted OM. The 50mm f/3.5 has a late serial number and seems very sharp based on initial test shots

Very nice, captures the mood of the place well I think.

This arrived today. I have sold a couple of lenses to cover all the paper, mounts etc that I need to make an ARPS panel submission, so I wanted something to tide me over until I decide what longer lens(es) to get for Sony in future. I have an OM2 to use this on as well.

Another that I just worked up from my archive. This is Castle House in Newark on Trent, Notts. I took this in May last year but only gained enough skills to do it justice over the past few weeks - I particularly struggled with the brickwork on this one before realising how a black-white gradient...

Revisiting a picture of The Wave in Sheffield. Previously I presented this with only the central structure but have learnt a few new techniques over the past few months that allowed me to redo this with a more complete view of the building.

Minerva Building, University of Lincoln

Yes, that was with the Laowa 9mm f/2.8 on Fuji

Still mining the archive, this is from Liverpool

Thanks Irene!

Gradually working through my backlog, this is from Leeds in June Rose Bowl, Leeds Beckett University

Excellent set, looks superb in black and white. Takes me back to my university days

Thanks. It has taken me a while to find my niche but I am enjoying it. I am in the process of putting together 15-25 candidates for a 15 print panel as part of applying to the Royal Photographic Society for Associate level. Hence the pictures coming out from my backlog taken over the summer. I...

Today's processing, this is Trinity House, in Nottingham which is used by the energy company e.on

Car Park, University of Leeds Another from the summer, this one was much easier to process than my last post.

I'm a bit further South between Nottingham and Grantham but some of the members of my local camera club are up with you and posted some pics. Looks like an excellent event.

Two very nice sets. Am I right that these are from Harrogate?

Took this one over the summer in Liverpool. I really like the structure and I hope this does it justice

Final pic from last week's Hammersmith trip I think. I really liked the mix of low level concrete with the high rise block

Another from Hammersmith last week. Walked past this building a few times but this is the first time I got a picture I am reasonably content with

Thanks Irene, I really appreciate your kind words

Hammersmith, West London

I hope everything is okay Martin, enjoy the Leica - a friend of mine has two and really rates them

K&F 100mm square 10 stop plus 100x150mm 3stop soft grad. Both come really well packaged

Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield

Latest addition to the line up is a (loaner) Canon TSE 24mm f/3.5 II This is via a Sigma MC-11 adapter, judging by the EXIF it looks like it thinks the Canon is a Sigma lens

The Chapter House, Southwell Minster

Just received a Nisi filter adapter (for 100mm square filters) for my Laowa 12mm f/2.8. The lens doesn't take normal filters, so the adapter is specially designed to use the bayonet fitting for the lens hood. You then clip the actual filter holder onto that - the Nisi has a locking nut that...

Just to close this off. I swapped some Fuji specific Godox kit for an X2Ts trigger and it works perfectly on the A7.

Haven't had a lone tree from me for a while. First one using Sony...

The reverse, now that I have the Sony 20mm, Laowa 12mm and Samyang AF 75mm. I struggled for the first week due to the poor performance of the legacy OM lenses plus the terrible performance with the two Canon 50mm lenses I tried but everything is a lot sunnier now I have “proper” glass. I...

Today my Godox X2T arrived, and everything seems to work fine. The only thing that confused me when I first tried it was that the live view automatically switched to showing a brightened image instead of reflecting the manual exposure (which is how I have the camera set). On my Fujis I had to...

Now that I have jumped ship to Sony, I have "three" new lenses to test. This took a little while to do because I only got a Godox flash trigger today, so this is also my first try out with flash on Sony. First the Laowa 12mm f/2.8 via a Nikon->Sony Adaptor Next the same lens, but this time...

I always shoot colour then convert on PC

Been meaning to photograph all of the signposts in Keyworth, here is the first of them

Day two, my other stomping ground (Keyworth) this time with just the Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 and the Laowa 12mm f/2.8 on the Magic Shift Converter

I have had the Sony A7 for a bit longer than a week, but only had a couple of old manual lenses to try on it, and frankly the results were not great. I traded in my remaining Fuji kit and picked up three lenses plus a converter and they all turned up this afternoon - luckily on my afternoon off...

This is a three picture panorama using the Laowa 12mm f/2.8 (Nikon AI fit) on the Laowa Magic Shift Adapter.

First attempt with Laowa 12mm f/2.8 on Laowa Magic Shift Converter, this a three picture vertical pano

Where do I start?

I hope to receive my Sony 20 tomorrow(along with a few other things). I am really looking forward to trying out the 20, which I hope will be my go to walk around lens.

My Fuji journey started with the X-E1, which I used with a few Nikon lenses. The step up to the X-E2 was amazing, especially when v4 of the firmware was released and it gained lots of new features. Enjoy!

Looking to add an on camera flash plus wireless trigger for my Sony A7. I am already full in with Godox so want either a TT685 or TT350 plus X Pro trigger. Looking on Amazon, all the listings say A7R but not A7 (later A7 versions are shown as compatible). Is there an issue with flash...

I finally got a chance to compare the Sony A7 to Fuji and I am surprised how similar they are in size

I got the A7 this week with an Olympus OM adapter. This is with an Olympus OM 28/2.8, I ran this through Photo AI then gave it some black and white treatment in PS

Fuji X-T3, 8mm f/3.5, 16/1.4, 80/2.8 all in a box ready to be collected. 7Artisans 12/2.8 and (hopefully) Laowa 9/2.8 being sold locally tomorrow. Exit Fuji for me too - hello Sony.

Over the past year I have realised that my favourite genre is architectural fine art. I have been pushing ever wider in focal lengths on Fuji but I hit the buffers. Really, I need to be able to use shift lenses, and there just aren’t any good options for that with the Fuji. So, I have picked up...

Following up on this, I am going to return the Canon 50mm lenses. I think I am going to be better off with native Sony mount lenses for AF. The adapter will still stay for the T/S Canon, which is manual focus anyway.

Thanks, good to know. My main aim for the Sony is to try tilt/shift which doesn’t require AF, but the MC-11 is recommended for that because of its internal anti-reflective coating. If I decide to go all in with Sony, I will try to get an A7 II or above