Lens received this morning, very well packaged, thank you

Superb Geoff

#3's a cracker John

Not a deal breaker for me, I hardly use the flippy screen on the K1, prob once a year just for ground level fungi shots.

Pm sent

Superbly well shot, excellent detail

Superb shots, #1 for me for the light and darker bg

We live in the right county so that's a good starting point, will do some digging on poss locations.

Below are 2 images of the set up, 645z + 120mm F4 macro + Ext Tube then 2 x stacked Cactus triggers with the Sigma ring flash trigger on top and lens mounted, all this and hand held for the shooting, by inserting a piece of electrical tape in the hotshot of the lower trigger, the two communicate as though they were separate items not linked together therefore giving the HSS off camera capability.

Thanks Steve, I've not come across a bee fly.

In terms of HSS, I've used 2 cactus triggers, ( one set to transmit and one to receive ) one on top of the other with some insulating tape between them, the ring flash is triggered by the top cactus trigger with the ring flash trigger mounted on top of that, it looks and feels quite unwieldly but it works ok.

It allows shutter speeds well above the normal sync speed with on camera and gives the ability to balance flash with natural light and use the flash to freeze the flying insect.

Morning Steve

Here's one of my more successful attempts, aim to try again later this year when the bush flowers mid to late May - 1/1600 sec - F9 - 640 ISO