That's a very valid comment.
When you consider how many people there are and what a minuscule proportion of them ever visit any kind of gallery you can realise how most folk judge images from tiny pictures of the real thing. Rembrandt's "Night Watch" is a classic case in point.

I don't know this lens' capabilities but it looks like this should crop down into a lovely 'classic' style portrait

I started with an ME super. You also might like to try a P30. They are horrendously underrated simply because they look plasticky and so you can get them for peanuts on EBay. The results are anything but peanuts and, like the ME it feels nice to hold.

With apologies to Kris for piggy-backing his thread

Not quite the same standard of photograph but this prompted me show you two of my old vises that are in regular use in my workshop. Both "Made in England", the first is a Samsonia and the second is a Parkinson's Patent Perfect vise.

I thought I'd get in first with the bluebells by going up close and personal with them.
Carpets of them in the woods are always a wonderful and magical sight but they have a lot to offer as individuals too.

These were taken with a K5 and (1st one) a Russian Jupiter 11A and (remainder) a Macro Takumar 50mm.
Both are rather elderly presets.



















Comments and criticism welcome

Too - Whit - Too - Wonderful

She's rather attractive in that snazzy hat. Great macro.

Having used the thing for a while, a lot of people (me included) have thrown up our hands in dismay when a new set of AAs put into a *ist discharge so quickly you can almost watch it happen. Mine would be flat after leaving the camera overnight, for example, or a few hours steady use, irrespective of battery type.

I think I've cracked it.

The terminals on the inside of the battery cover are thin brass and are under considerable compression when the cover is closed. This compression eventually flattens them against the plastic of the cover, resulting in a poor contact. I physically (and carefully) bent them back outwards again with pressure of a fingernail underneath them.

No more prematurely depleted batteries! The current set have been in it for almost a week now.

Just to share the results of the lovely sunshine
K5 with a Takumar 135 (even though the exif says 50mm)
Three shots of the recently emerged.

Tortoiseshells about to make more tortoiseshells



Holly blue - unsurprisingly on holly!



And another, slightly worn tortoiseshell

I like the curve to the left that is instantly grabbed by the brick façade, leading the eye back to the right again so you continually examine the intricacies within the picture.