Get yourself the fastest cards you can afford, you've 2 slots and I have a 64gb in each, I prefer not to have one really high capacity card.

Battery wise, you can have up to 2 in the camera, one in the cam and one in the grip if you have one, I'd have 4 batteries total giving 2 spares, either buy the OEM charger which'll charge just one batt at a time, or there are options on fleabay with a double charger which I've just acquired which works well.

I prefer to charge the batteries separately rather than in camera.

These were all handheld, gives the flexibility to follow the bee's, the ceanothus is covered in flowers at the mo, has been for 7 days and will probably only do another 7 - 10 days before they start to wilt.

Steve - thanks for the mention of the crop, amended version as below

I knew you would at some time Mike 😉

It's a Ceanothus, grows to about 2m high and 1.5m deep, flowers early to mid May and is a bee magnet.

Rock beach looks great 👍 Doom Bar ( the beer ) is named after the patch of sand in the distance

1/1250 sec 320 ISO with the 120mm macro @ F8

Totally agree

Save up, wait a while and get the real thing

Spent 90 minutes in the undergrowth yesterday morning with the 120mm macro, all natural light and handheld

Thanks John, if you'll allow me to add a couple of images from the factory tour I did, lookin at the exif, it was back in 2015




Running board and wheel arch from marine ply




Nothing to do with Crashtapenn, a Morgan Aeromax in their showroom