40mm at work

At last - not packing skips and decent weather so this morning popped the 40 mm Ltd on and took me to my Rhodies to see what I could do

Slowly getting there I think - a long way to go I know.

1) taken on auto

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2) using Av for this and the rest

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3)

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4) pity about the bee here - moving very very fast it was

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Yes , I think this lens and I are going to become really good friends

Comments please - bearing in mind that these were purely for practice to see what I could do

Lucky for you to see rhodies in sunlight! Re No 4 - there's a clown in every circus T-T, and the bee is it here.

Interesting lens the 40 - I have it too. I think No 3 shows it off best -you've managed to isolate the subject better here, I think. The lens certainly has good IQ and rendering. The Av aspect you seem to have down pat.

Yes - I enjoy Av now

I was surprised with the first one - it was on Auto and I had confirmation of focus and I had aimed on the flower head just under the centre - and it's just not quite in focus

# 3 was a bit of a struggle - I was too close in for it and had to back out a bit before the K-x was happy - but yes I think I'm reasonably happy with it.

I wanted the last one - but thanks to the buzzing friend - it's a no go

This lens will be in France with me next week

Good choice for travel with the 40, T-T. The pancakes are travel friendly, of course.

As to focus, there's no shame in focussing manually all of the time. Moving in and out from the subject with the whole camera is just one part of that experience, and one which I do often, especially for subjects that are close to the minimum focussing distance (of 16 inches in the old language, in the case of this lens).