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The Colour Works
Written by Ethan & Steven Posted in Collections.
A local place of interest I have overlooked for many years is a pigment works located on the banks of the river Derwent, between Matlock and Matlock Bath. As a boy, I often fished in this area as the combination of rapids, weir and deep pools were excellent spots to catch Trout and Grayling. The works was in production back then, the river below the works often tainted a reddish colour due to pigment leaching into the waterway that vented from the site.
Leica CL Thumbgrip
Written by Steven Posted in Accessories.
I have big clumsy hands. My fingers are large with similar dexterity to uncooked sausages on a fork. Try as I may to be careful, completing a delicate task without some kind of calamity is an alien concept to me. If I am completing a DIY task, I need lots of space and big tools. If I am working on a gardening project, I am suited to driving holes into the ground with a jackhammer rather than mincing around with secateurs. Strange then, that I have spent a lifetime using many of photography’s smaller tools, eschewing Manufacturers such as Canon and Nikon and their behemoth product lines.
Summilux SL 50 f1.4 ASPH - The Trinity Complete
Written by Steven Posted in Lenses.
It was always my plan to build a small collection of SL primes, based around the focal lengths thatI consider most useful to me. In recent years I have preferred to keep my lens choice small, unlike around 20-30 years ago when I had a dozen or so for one system. Back then the number of lenses in my collection had grown out of trial and error as I experimented with different focal lengths and speeds. In retrospect I found it useful (if not a bit costly) to establish which angles of view I tended to operate with, as my personal taste has not really changed much since then. My core system comprised of 35, 50 and 100mm lenses, the latter occasionally being replaced with a 135, or even more occasionally a 180. It was these which saw most active use over many years, while others were used simply when I felt like a change (and to justify their existence).