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<p>Last weekend we spent the day watching equestrian ross country.<br />These were all taken with a 7D2+100-400<br> <a title="Berks and Bucks Draghounds Hunter Trial and Team Chase" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1648/26216110155_54ca47c339_z.jpg" alt="Berks and Bucks Draghounds Hunter Trial and Team Chase" width="640" height="426" /></a><br /> <a title="Berks and Bucks Draghounds Hunter Trial and Team Chase" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1632/25943237050_2db2bfb893_z.jpg" alt="Berks and Bucks Draghounds Hunter Trial and Team Chase" width="640" height="426" /></a><br /> <a title="Berks and Bucks Draghounds Hunter Trial and Team Chase" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1558/26123653062_9aae75b333_z.jpg" alt="Berks and Bucks Draghounds Hunter Trial and Team Chase" width="640" height="426" /></a></p>

<p>Our neighbour's eldest daughter got married last weekend.<br />Taken with a 5D3 using either a 24-70/4 or a 70-200/2.8 IS<br> <a title="Wedding" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1632/25877595960_22e65e8302_z.jpg" alt="Wedding" width="640" height="426" /></a><br /> <a title="Wedding" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1536/26084137041_0e31222768_z.jpg" alt="Wedding" width="640" height="426" /></a><br /> <a title="Wedding" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1529/26084136861_e908869837_z.jpg" alt="Wedding" width="640" height="426" /></a></p>

<p>I'm continuing to be snowed under with writing work, so here's another shot from London Fashion weekend.<br />7D2+70-200/2.8 IS<br> <a title="London Fashion Weekend 2016" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1636/25356968581_08247fe474_z.jpg" alt="London Fashion Weekend 2016" width="640" height="426" /></a></p>

<p>I've used Duracell batteries for my older models, 5D, 20D etc. and they seem perfectly adequate. I think my 7D2 came with an additional 3rd party battery that works perfectly well too.<br> My 2p.</p>

<p>Here is a shot from London Fashion Weekend.<br />To be absolutely honest, I wasn't very happy with most of my work from this shoot, but I was very pleased with this shot showing the phones.<br />This was taken with a 7D2+70-200/2.8 IS<br> <a title="London Fashion Weekend 2016" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1592/25331494832_70705cee80_c.jpg" alt="London Fashion Weekend 2016" width="534" height="800" /></a></p>

<p>I've had the 70-200/4 (non IS) for about 10 years. It's a really excellent lens, very light, small and not difficult to hand hold at all. If you don't shoot at over 200mm, then it's well worth getting. My personal preference is the 100-400</p>

<p>It's been another thin week for photography, but I have done a lot of writing. This is a dog walker I bumped into last weekend.<br />Taken with a 5D3+24-70/4.<br> <a title="Dog walker" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1630/24625895203_3eae928177_z.jpg" alt="Dog walker" width="426" height="640" /></a></p>

<blockquote> <p>"When I get threes, I know I must be doing something right"</p> </blockquote> <p>I could't agree more. <br> I've had lots or work that's been published internationally that's had poor ratings on PN (but to confound that theory, other work that's sold has done quite well). But commercially successful work has also been rubbished by the Royal Photographic Society too. <br> I think that unless images have immediate apeal (HDR, birds or breasts), or are outside people's experience or expectations, then they are not going to do well. <br> Does that change my activity to be more popular/populist? Well, yes. I tend to delete images that don't do well and tend to add material that may be well received. Another change I have made is that I have accepted that just because an image here isn't a success here, doesn't mean it isn't worthy.<br> PN must be doing something right as I've been coming back for more for over 10 years.</p>

<p>By comparison with the previous shots I'm afaid mine are going to look particularly mundane. I've bought a cheap Pentacon 50/1.8 lens for use when I don't want to risk my Sigma 50/1.4 (Airsoft).<br />The shots came out about as well as you would expect for a lens that used to sit on a Praktica, so I'm thinking about getting something like a 135/3.5 to go with it.<br />These shots were taken with the Pentacon attached to a 5D with an adaptor that calaims gives the focus beep, which it does. From time to time.<br />It's a motorway bridge over the Thames at Bray on Thames.</p> <p align="center"><a title="Bray Motorway Bridge - Pentacon 50/1.8 tryout" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1479/24397393554_ec441282ff_c.jpg" alt="Bray Motorway Bridge - Pentacon 50/1.8 tryout" width="800" height="533" /></a><br /> <a title="Bray Motorway Bridge - Pentacon 50/1.8 tryout" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1622/24934706751_4a8b5d4e0c_c.jpg" alt="Bray Motorway Bridge - Pentacon 50/1.8 tryout" width="800" height="533" /></a><br /> <a title="Bray Motorway Bridge - Pentacon 50/1.8 tryout" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1682/24660386039_35f2fe8597_c.jpg" alt="Bray Motorway Bridge - Pentacon 50/1.8 tryout" width="533" height="800" /></a></p>

@Anders Hingel it must be ~15 years ago

<p>When the Indi first came out, that was the paper I'd buy, mostly based on its excellent BW photography. When they went to colour photography, I changed paper. </p>

@Brad Cloven the Fed 3 shooting HP5+ and that lens looked slightly sharper that a Sigma 50/1.4 on my EOS 1v with Delta 400. I've never shot a rangefinder before and that are taking some getting used to.

<p>@Patrick S - many thanks for your kind words.</p>

<p>Hello, I'm new to the Classic Manual Cameras forum and I thought I'd jump into this thread to offer a shot from the first film through my newly acquired Zorki 4k, it's our son in his room.<br> I used the 52/2.8 from my Fed 3 because it was a bit dark and the Zorki's 50/3.5 was giving too slow a shutter speed.<br />This was shot on Ilford HP5+ that was processed by a commercial laboratory in the UK.<br> <a title="Alexander" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1449/24805130986_016bdeedca_c.jpg" alt="Alexander" width="800" height="540" /></a></p>

<p>I've had the first few rolls of Ilford Delta 400 Professional back from processing and I'm very pleased with the film.<br> These photos were taken at Dungeness using a Canon EOS 1v with a Hoya Red 25 filter and in the case of the close up I used stacked Hoya ND8 and ND1000 filters to give a 30 second exposure.<br> <a title="Dungeness morning" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1658/24562587180_b8c7043a1a_c.jpg" alt="Dungeness morning" width="800" height="541" /></a><br /> <a title="Dungeness morning" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1613/24831812766_2e9ffb88d7_c.jpg" alt="Dungeness morning" width="800" height="540" /></a><br /> <a title="Dungeness morning" href=" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1456/24562587720_0506ab4ff0_c.jpg" alt="Dungeness morning" width="800" height="540" /></a></p>

<p>I bought a K1000 in 1980 and used it for almost 20 years before selling it and I now wish I hadn't.<br> What was good was that it was a very basic but very well made camera. The 50/2 lens that mine came with was excellent. The camera did everything that was asked of it.</p>