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Burghley House Stamford Tudor Kitchen 

Leica SL 601 / Leica R 19/2.8 Mk II ... ISO 800 1/25 f8 ... handheld ... cropped

If you have the Leica Pocket Book 8th Edition, please examine the 19mm R Mk II lens' MTF chart at medium apertures ... it's a super lens 

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Burghley House Stamford Tudor Kitchen 

Leica SL 601 Leica R PC Super Angulon 28/2.8 ... ISO 1600 1/40 f11  ... handheld ... cropped

 

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Ante Chapel Burghley House Stamford Lincs. UK ... "Coriolanus and the Roman Matrons by Antonio Palma (1510-1575)" 

Panasonic S1R / Leica TL 11-23mm   ISO 2000 11mm (16mm FF equiv) 0.6sec f10 handheld ... S1R in APS-C mode crops sensor to 20.68MP 

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Burghley House Stamford Roman Stairway (in style of Scala Romana) and vaulted ceiling ... leads to first floor Ante Chapel 

Panasonic S1R / Leica TL 11-23mm ISO 2000  11mm/16mm FF equiv.  f9  1/25 sec handheld ...

Roman maiden statues are displayed in the alcoves ... close-up in next post 

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Burghley House Stamford ... One of the Roman maiden statues displayed in the Roman Stairway alcoves 

Leica SL 601  Leica R 28/2.8 PC lens ... ISO 1600 F11  1/40sec. handheld 

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Burghley House Stamford Lincs. UK ... 'The Brown Drawing Room' 

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Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent (later Queen Victoria) slept in this room when she visited Burghley in 1835  with her mother the Duchess of Kent ... her bed was on display but has been moved. The two Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) portraits on the wall are: Sir Christopher Whichcote 4th Baronet and Lady Whichcote of Aswarby Park, Lincolnshire ... ancestors of the 4th Marchioness of Exeter (Burghley 'Cecil' family). Gainsborough is recognised as being one of England's finest portrait painters and was a founding member of the Royal Academy. 

Panasonic S1R / Leica TL 11-23mm / Lee Grad 6ND filter ... ISO 2000 11mm (16mm FF equiv) 1/8 sec f10 handheld with manual focus ... S1R APS-C cropped sensor 20.6MP ... 18 August 2021 

I do not have a sufficiently 'ultrawide' FF lens to tackle some of Burghley's rooms ... hence experimenting with the TL 11-23mm APS-C zoom. Tempted to consider the Laowa 15mm shift FF lens but it has no provision for using Lee or similar 100x150mm filters. Most of the rooms' contents are 'roped off' ... thus limiting potential photo angles / compositions; no tripods or flash permitted.  

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Burghley House Stamford Lincs. UK ... 'The Brown Drawing Room' 

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Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent (later Queen Victoria) slept in this room when she visited Burghley in 1835  with her mother the Duchess of Kent ... her bed was on display but has been moved. The two Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) portraits on the wall are: Sir Christopher Whichcote 4th Baronet and Lady Whichcote of Aswarby Park, Lincolnshire ... ancestors of the 4th Marchioness of Exeter (Burghley 'Cecil' family). Gainsborough is recognised as being one of England's finest portrait painters and was a founding member of the Royal Academy. 

Panasonic S1R / Leica TL 11-23mm / Lee Grad 6ND filter ... ISO 2000 11mm (16mm FF equiv) 1/8 sec f10 handheld with manual focus ... S1R APS-C cropped sensor 20.6MP ... 18 August 2021 

I do not have a sufficiently 'ultrawide' FF lens to tackle some of Burghley's rooms ... hence experimenting with the TL 11-23mm APS-C zoom. Tempted to consider the Laowa 15mm shift FF lens but it has no provision for using Lee or similar 100x150mm filters. Most of the rooms' contents are 'roped off' ... thus limiting potential photo angles / compositions; no tripods or flash permitted.  

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 These sites impose a lot of limitations on serious photographers. They certainly don't alter the quality of your images. Always a pleasure to look at. 

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Panoramic composite: Stables Courtyard, Burghley House Stamford Lincs UK.  10 vertical slices stitched via Photoshop Elements ... Leica R8 / DMR / R 28mm PC f8 ...ISO 200 handheld. 

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"Half-hour glass"  - auto-rotating after 30 minutes - Burghley House Garden of Surprises Stamford Lincs UK

Leica R8 / DMR / R 19mm Mk II  (26mm FF equiv - 1.37 crop sensor) 

 

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Ornate Urn with Serpent Handles ... between Third and Fourth George Rooms, Burghley House Stamford Lincs. UK

Panasonic S1R / Leica TL 11-23mm at 23mm ... 35mm FF equiv. 

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The Blue Silk Bedroom, Burghley House, Stamford Lincs. UK.  

The State Bed was made by Mayhew and Ince one the important 18th C London furniture makers, for Brownlow 9th Earl of Exeter. 

The Piere Gôle cabinet, RHS, was purchased by the 5th Earl from Gôle's Gobelins workshop (see following separate photo and description)

Panasonic S1R / Leica TL 11-16mm ... 11mm ISO  2000 f7,  0.5sec ... S1R in APS-C mode ... FF equiv. 16.5mm 

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Pierre Gôle 17th C. French Floral Marquetry Cabinet, Blue Silk Bedroom, Burghley House Stamford.

Purchased by the 5th Earl from Gôle's Gobelins workshop ... Pierre Gôle was one of the principal furniture makers to King Louis XIV. 

For years the cabinet stood 'unrecognised' outside the ground floor gents cloakroom until discovered / identified by Prof. Lunsingh Scheurleer from Leyden ... whence it was restored by conservators; it is one of the earliest examples of French floral marquetry c.1665. Not possible to obtain a front view photo as the room front has a red rope across its width. 

Panasonic S1R / Leica TL 11-16mm ... 12 mm ISO  2000 f7 0 .4 sec ... S1R in APS-C mode ... FF equiv. 18mm 

Both above photos taken handheld .. verticals aligned via monitor's 'grid screen' ... no tripods or flash permitted 

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High Street St Martins Stamford Lincs UK ... Covid Deserted August 2 2020 ... Sony A7SII / Leica PA Curtagon R 35/4 shift lens at f11 .. camera handheld ... image cropped in PP.  Camera was sold to fund another lens but I've now acquired an A7S which does not have the IS ... it's a very useful camera for low light imaging. 

All Stamford School buildings originally of 18th C and early 19th C. construction using local limestone ... and each building well documented in the book, 'THE TOWN OF STAMFORD .. A Survey By The Royal Commission On Historical Monuments" and published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office on 1977.   

The Leica Curtagon R 35/4 has an undeserved poor reputation likely because photographers do not use it optimally ... or they're repeating others' unfounded opinions. When 'shifted' it requires stopping down to f11 (as per manufacturer Schneider's recommendation) ... With a modern mirrorless camera's "magnified live view, it's a very usable and cost effective lens.  This example was sitting unloved and unwanted on LCE Strand's 'used' shelf for 2 years so I made an offer which was accepted. 

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Burghley House Stamford Lincs. UK ... 'THE HEAVEN ROOM' ... decorated with Antonio Verrio's greatest masterpiece depicting scenes from ancient mythology. Carpet is an English copy of a  Savonnerie. The Huguenot solid silver wine cooler by Phillip Rollos in 1710 is reputedly the world's largest weighing over 230 pounds. Antonio Verrio (1636-1707) also decorated the walls and ceilings of Hampton Court Palace. 

Leica SL 601 / Leica R 19mm Mk II ... ISO 800 1/13 sec f11 handheld ... ambient light mix of daylight/fluorescent ... no flash or tripods permitted.  A rope barrier compromises composition / camera angles. The image is slightly cropped ... plan to retake using a wider Canon 17mm TS-E shift lens ... Leica does not have any shift lenses in its stable... and neither do Panasonic or Sigma. LAOWA offers a 15mm 'L' mount shift optic ... but the Canon offers both shift and tilt. 

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Another Burghley House Stamford photo showing part of The Blue Silk Dressing Room. The 18th Century Chinese export lacquer table in the centre has fold-over flaps enabling use for backgammon, chess,, cards and a tea table. The two chairs are part of a larger set of George III painted beechwood bedroom furniture. The bulbous earthenware pots are rare Dutch ceramics decorated to resemble Chinese porcelain. The small The Virgin and Child" painting by Orazio Gentileschi (1563-1639) hanging at the top of the left side wall, was in the possession of Pope Clement XIV. Brownlow, 9th Earl of Exeter (1725-1793), responsible for the renovation and furnishing of the Burghley House "George State Rooms", persuaded the Pope to swap "The Virgin and Child" painting for a telescope! Photo taken using a Panasonic S1R 47mp mirrorless camera but in its APS-C mode when fitted with a Leica TL 11-23mm 'L mount' lens ... the 1.5 crop factor results in a 20.68mp image.    Exposure: ISO 2000 1/6 sec f7 11mm (16.5mm FF equiv) ... camera handheld ... IBIS assisted. 

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Ornate 18th C. ? carved chair ... situated top of The Hell Staircase, Burghley House, Stamford Lincs., UK ... there are several more of these in Burghley's Great Hall ... and they all have pine cones on the seats ... as if to say, "Please do not sit ..." . Still researching to find out more about the chairs and their purpose and who made them. Leica SL 601 / Leica R PC Super Angulon 28/2.8 'shift lens'. Photographed July 23 2021. 

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