Another way around the focusing is mount the target on a separate focus slider on a tripod, line it up carefully with the camera-lens ensemble and then use the focus slider's screw to move the target. It's a lot lighter than the camera and stuff (which could move disastrously with the slightest nudge) and can be accurately positioned much more easily.



To focus the camera, 200mm lens and a 28mm reversed onto it, swaying about on a tripod would have been near impossible. Putting the plant pot on a slider made things far easier. For the sake of scale, that is money spider silk you are looking at.

I (marginally) like the blue one.

Good thing you had your camera as missing these super shots would have been annoying.

I thought Pratchett's banshee popped a note under the door because it was too shy to go OOeeOww?

It is certainly a nice camera to hold and to use. I thought it was worth nothing at all !

It IS a bit of a monster isn't it? 'Built like a tank' is perhaps an understatement but when you pair it with a K1 it balances very nicely indeed for hand held use.

You seem to care enough to want to get it right and you have come to the right place to find oodles of advice so maybe you should indeed find a new body and rectify the 'I know sod all about cameras'. It feeds on itself because the more you know the more enjoyable it becomes.

The colour one captures such a range of responses to it, all questioning who, what, why this individual is as it is. I deliberately didn't use the word 'lion' because you have caught something of its personal essence here.

Never seen silvery teasels before. They look great. I would agree with Steve about the challenge of macro and you don't need to get on the floor outside the neighbour's house - I often get on my belly in the back yard!

And, as is becoming regular, there's a spelling error in the title It doesn't show the title when you preview a post so if you goofed at the beginning you've had it !