Road trip to Hungary, part 17
The final leg, Belgium and then Calais on the north coast of France
The trip that was planned to be about 1700 km each way in fact was over 5500 km, mostly due to our various detours.
The trip that was planned to be about 1700 km each way in fact was over 5500 km, mostly due to our various detours.
I treated myself to a lens tilt mechanism and a vintage Helios 4m-44 58mm f/2 lens. So I figured I needed to go out and test them. These were taken from Portsdown Hill, facing south, over Portchester and Cosham. Being able to tilt the lens means one can shift the focus onto a particular part…
I visited the recently rewilded Knepp estate earlier today. Consequently I found myself within 1500 metres or so of Shipley, the location of the infamous Kings Mill. Not to be confused with Kings Mill in Castle Donnington, some 200 km or so north-west of here, this King’s Mill (aka Vincent’s Mill) is a smock windmill…
A few snaps of both the old and the new Severn Bridges.
Been working on the computer and experimenting with my Icom IC-R20 radio scanner for a couple of days. So I thought it was time to get some fresh air, and perhaps take some more pictures of a snow-covered Pécs, Hungary.
An old pal was studying at at Prague University on an exchange year for his degree. He asked me if I would care to join him for a week or two. So I made my way to London’s Victoria Bus and I hopped aboard a Prague bound bus carrying a small bag of clothes and…
Regular readers may know that my 2023 Christmas project was to make this 120 year old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens fit on my µ4/3 cameras and actually capture some pictures with it. Unfortunately, at the time, the weather was too wet to take the thing outdoors. Fortunately by early January the weather became…