A trip to Manchester

[iangreenhalgh1]

Took my dad for a day out for his birthday andtook along my new Penta Q7 with Computar 1.3/8.5mm lens, tiny combo that fitted perfectly in my coat pocket. Makes a very nice street shooter. Most of these shots were at f4, some at f2. There's some stitched images too, which this lens also works well for, as it has very little distortion and no falloff of illumination as it is for a larger sensor than the Q7s.

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#19 3-bladed iris, like a Hollywood Distagon.

[trev]

Very good, love the one with the red hair

[kds315*]

Surprisingly it looks quite better here.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Thanks guys.

Klaus, this 8.5mm Computar and the 6mm Computar are very good, it's the 2.8mm Panasonic that was a stinker.

[kds315*]

[iangreenhalgh1]

Sure, it happens to all of us from time to time!

[vroger]

neat set, thanks for sharing.

[philslizzy]

Nice set of photos. Very early in the morning I suspect. Where is the station in the first pic? Looks like Stalybridge although its probably not.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Cheers guys.

The first shot is catching the train in Millom, just after 9am, so yup, early morning with that distinctive low angle sunlight we get up here in the north at this time of year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millom_railway_station

Shots in Manchester are all between 12.30 and 5.30pm (you can see the time in picture 4 on the digital clock in the mid-distance, this was on the way to catch the train home).

[philslizzy]

What took to you to spring gardens? Not yer normal tourist place.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Passed it on the way from Picadilly to the Midland Hotel where we met my sister.

[TrueLoveOne]

[philslizzy]

[iangreenhalgh1]

I'm glad people like the red hair pic, it's a shameless rip-off of Schindler's List. The girl's hair really was that colour, all I did was select the rest of the pic and desaturate it.

Interesting info about that building, it is in the financial quarter yes, lots of large ornate bank buildings. It reminded me of buildings in London, particularly around Whitehall.

[philslizzy]

Of course when these buildings were built Manchester was the world capital in manufacturing. It had over 110 mills and it is said that Oldham had 365, plus all the other towns clustered around a 20 mile radius of Manchester had nearly a thousand mills and factories producing everything from cigarettes to sausages, cotton to cameras and railways to rubber. No slave trade though - that was Liverpool's forte