They've got a certain Takumar quality about them - which isn't really that surprising. I'm just glad he's reconsidering selling it. His sales are too tempting by far!

You will love it. Lovely bit of glass. Try an extension tube with it once you're used to it. It works very well with the Jessops set with the electrical contacts.

How much more of the deco architecture has survived at Cardiff station? You might have a little gold mine there.

Absolutely beautiful.

The age of the thing doesn't matter a jot. It's nice to find others getting them out for an airing.

Great fun. I love the B&W with those amazing sunbeams.

You really did have to stop there. It's a smashing (splashing?) location.

Oh, most of my spiders are very much alive! Fortunately, they ensure that very little else remains so.

One of my folding camera lens conversions is an Ensar f4.5 100mm made in the late 1920s by Houghtons, London. I put it onto a bellows this morning with a Pentax K1 and excavated a small peacock's feather from the bits and pieces at the back of my desk. Lighting is from a north facing window which entailed some quite long exposures at ISO100.

1 The whole feather



2 The end of the feather



3 An 80% crop from the first image.



4 The kit and the Hi tech BluTack method used to secure the feather



For a lens and shutter that have almost attained 'antique' status I can't find much to complain about. Also, of minor interest is the Art Deco decoration of the era on the face of the shutter.

#2 for the range of tones and all the rest of them are close on its heels.