FunctionallyUnfunctional

I decided to spend some more time with my newly acquired but severely broken Canon 35 1.4. (See previous post - a very broken lens) I thought it might be fun to concentrate on shooting some old things I have around the house. Since it's preset to its closest focus point of about 11 inches I can only do close up photography with it. But boy is it sharp at that spot. What a sweet lens. I'm having fun! Can you identify the subject matter of all three images?

Recently my friend Andria was on a job when her lens fell apart. She was a bit shaken obviously. She sent me a message showing the broken lens and asked if it could be repaired. I suggested she bring it to the store for an estimate. For enough money just about anything can be repaired right? Sadly, the repair cost of the lens simple didn't justify having it repaired. There was just too much damage. So Andria purchased a new lens and donated her broken lens to my project. I was actually quite excited because, despite its condition, this is one of Canon's best lenses. I was confident that I could manage to capture images with it and suspected they'd be quite sharp.  I noticed the focus ring would still drive the elements of the lens. I felt this was good news but since proper alignment of the housing could no longer be achieved I really had no way to know exactly where the lens would be focused. With two exceptions. I could turn it to its stops at either end a...

2019 was very good to me, at least from an equipment standpoint. Thanks to an attractive employee purchase program, I was able to bring home two new cameras in 2019. In fact, one is so new it only has 29 actuations on it and I honestly haven't even downloaded them yet. I also own some new lenses, lights, triggers, and even that new Leatherman multi-tool photographed above. I have had a small shooting area in my basement for some time, but over the holidays I took time to expand it into some additional space and actually create a small studio space. Actually its a really nice, large area.  I'm quite blessed to have not only such a space, but also the awesome gear to use in it. I'll leave that for a different blog. Having finished the studio, it was only fitting that I shoot something, right? Well, in typical fashion, every bit of that fancy, new gear remained packed away today.  Instead, just about everything used to shoot this image was free - devalued gear that, i...