I like them all but especially the "H&M" one.

That was an exciting day out. I wonder how that solitary leaf avoided being swept away?
You have a style of your own with these.

OK Gareth, you got me interested. Here's two with the Cosina. Both in very dim light with flash and slow speed sync







Comments welcome as I'm an absolute beginner with flash

Gareth wrote ... Got the tree and deco's up yet

You set the bar far too high for that as a subject ! (though I still think it's nice that you did it with a Takumar)

Jolly good camera. I still use mine.

Well, there's encouraging - now, if it would only stop raining!

Vive le Tak !
I recall seeing that image on here and being impressed with it as well. Super Christmas pressie Gareth - well done!

Made by Cosina, these carry a multitude of brand names (this IS a Cosina). They have a very high reputation, both as macro and everyday 100mm lenses. They are indeed plastic - hence the moniker. On its own it goes down to 1:2 and with the purpose designed 'matched macro adapter' lens on the front, 1:1




It arrived as the light was waning so the initial test shots are all long exposures and all using auto-focus on a K5 ........

wide open at f3.5, with the macro adapter



stopped down to f8



f8 and heavily cropped



With the macro adapter removed, the tripod pulled about 5feet backwards and at f3.5



and at f9



Crop from the f3.5 - shows purple fringing at points of high contrast



at f9, the PF has disappeared



and finally, a real 'grab shot'! A flock of seagulls appeared, making a great screaming din and swooping around.
I just whacked in a random spin of +EV, pointed it, panned and clicked. This is quite a stiff crop



For a first appraisal I'm very impressed with this beastie. AF was positive and blindingly fast, I haven't used MF yet but there is a good sized piece of barrel to grab hold of and, being an 'A' lens, it's always wide open for focussing and composition, only stopping down at half click.

Most impressive. I really must get one of these. "Red" is particularly nice

It's nice to see what the place actually looks like rather than the more usual heaving sea of people - lovely pictures