Old equipment

Old equipment; Like me do you have an old camera or two lying about that you used to use all the time? Long ago it was our "go to"bit of kit but since then we've upgraded and moved on to bigger and hopefully better things and our once loved camera finds its way to the back of the shelf. I spotted my old Fujifilm FinePix S9500 languishing in a cupboard the other day and decided to dig it out and try it out.

The S9500 is a digital bridge camera and in its day had a very nice lens on it, I bought mine as my first "serious" digital camera and found it very good in some ways and very frustrating in others! As I said it has a great lens, it will shoot down to ISO 80 which gives great landscape images but has a pitiful burst rate and most annoyingly a voracious appetite for batteries!
The object of the exercise was though to see how pictures from it would turn out. With this in mind I took it on a day out to Blists Hill Victorian town with my partner Tracey.
I hope you like my pictures.

Industrial Steam Locomotive
Black + White image.

Industrial Steam Locomotive.

Level crossing gates.

The Doctor's house
Blists Hill Victorian Town.

The front entrance to the Doctors House.

The ruined remains of
The original blast furnaces.

Belt driven metal turning lathe.

Speed regulator on a stationary steam engine.

Hand operated fly press.

Working area in the Blacksmiths shop.

An overall view of the Blacksmiths workshop.

Old industrial building.

One of the bedrooms the
Toll house.

Building containing the
vertical blowing engine.

A view up the lane
to the Doctors house.

Close up of a decaying
coal wagon.

Decaying coal wagon.