Whenever I use mine I think how slow it is, and how tiny the screen is.

Dan

Am I the only one with a D gathering dust then? Kept it to use as a second body, but it rarely does anything now. Like my K10D too much. Prefer the speed, feel, size, images...

Dan

Nice! Second fly pic and second grasshopper are the best for me.

Dan

That's the way I'm using mine more often than not. Okay, not macro as such, but tight crops on flowers etc, and throwing the background way out of focus.

Will get round to posting some more examples at some point. Had a bit of an orchid-fest myself a couple of weeks ago.

Dan

Depends which red spider mites you mean. There are some which are tiny, I've seen plenty of these scurrying about, but then there are some which are about 3mm long and fatter than these too.

Here's one of the tiny ones: http://www.pbase.com/etuk/image/46776526 (not my image, found through Google). Note the front 'antennae' are actually legs.

Dan

They're just red spider mites, harmless to bees. They are a pest on plants though, but you'll often see them walking about on walls and stonework. Varroa mites are much smaller, more rounded and a darker red.

Dan

Here comes Mr. Pedant again! I'm certainly no expert with Dragonfly and Damselfly (collectively 'Odonata') identification, but I believe this is an immature male Common Blue Damselfly. Note the complete band on segment 8, this would be a 'christmas tree' shaped stepped triangle on a female. Obviously I had to look it up though.

Dan

Nutter!

Dan

Ah, yes, that's true. I don't do that so didn't think of it.

Dan

Well, I used it Thursday night when I was photographing hedgehogs. Lit by a tungsten modeling light in my flash, sometimes the AF would lock, sometimes not. The quick shift wouldn't be any use in this respect, as the AF has to lock on first, and as I had my hand on the lens, and to minimise movements that could spook the hedgehog, I used the switch on the lens to go to MF rather than the switch on the body.

I suppose some future low-end bodies might have the body switch removed, but the higher end ones give the option of AFC or AFS, which obviously isn't catered for on the lens.

Dan