Bowood Estate (Wednesday 30th October 2024)

Wednesday was relatively mild, but the grey clouds were trying to make it rain, though only succeeding in reducing all colour from the landscape.

I went up to Bowood to test the new lens I acquired on Tuesday, an 18-135mm lens that I hope will sometimes take the place of two lenses on two cameras. It is designed for use on APS-C lenses where it would be the equivalent of 27-202mm, so the Blip, taken on a full-frame camera set in crop mode at its widest focal length, is at 27mm and shows a complete absence of vignetting, as one would expect.

I also wanted to see how it behaved in full-frame, so the Extras show the result at both extremes without any cropping. Both show considerable vignetting and by the time the image has been cropped to eliminate that effect, there is little more image left than in APS-C mode. I have now fitted it to an APS-C camera in place of a 17-70mm lens.

L.
Thursday 31.10.2024 (1101 hr)

Blip #4178 (#3928 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #003
Blips/Extras In 2024 #162/266 + #069/100 Extras
Day #5329 (1346 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3317 (#3157 + 160 in archived blips)

Bowood series
Trees series
Flora series
Landscape series

Taken with Pentax K-1 Mark II and Pentax smc P-DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6ED AL[IF] DC WR lens
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Elvis Presley - Surrender (recorded 30 October 1960, Nashville TN)
Seduction sixties style, recorded 60 years ago to the day. This was first recorded in 1905 by Mario Massa as Torna A Sorriento, but it didn't sound like this.

One year ago:
Lacock Abbey NT