Parting Shot

Peter Rowlands · Issue 147, Nov/Dec 2025 · pp. 85–86

Products mentioned: Nikonos V, 16mm Nikkor fisheye lens, Agfachrome 1000 slide film, Appollo scooter

Parting Shot by Peter Rowlands Do you have a shot which has a story within a story? If so e mail it with up to 750 words of text and yours could be the next Parting Shot. Images can be any size bigger than 20cm (horizontal or vertical) @ 150dpi saved as jpeg format and about 500 - 750 words would be fine.) peter@uwpmag.com Having had no Parting Shot submissions for this issue, you’ve got me again and, following on from Nigel Motyer’s excellent article about Basking Sharks, I thought I would take the opportunity to dust off this shot from the 1980’s off Plymouth. At the time it was rare to get a full length shot of a Basking Shark and this was taken with a Nikonos V with a specially housed and domed 16mm Nikkor full frame fisheye. This made an especially small and simple to use camera. Aperture priority exposure at F5.6 gave a wide depth of field from about 2ft (60cm) to infinity. This sh…