Thanks Kris, a K 50mm is the longest lens I have at the minute and I had the 35mm out so that why I used that one, being lazy. The pink flower is just a little bigger than a match head, and I liked the way it looked cropped as I have so thanks for that. I knew I liked it but wasn't sure if it would seem to be right

Cheers guys
I was going to make a joke around af not keeping up
I think you're right about the close focusing with sfl and tubes as I had trouble trying to get all of the snail in the shot.
At the minute I have a limited selection of lenses, (soon to change)
So I'm trying to make do.
Thanks again
Derek

Was out in the garden with my K3 and K 35mm f3.5 with an ext tube.
















And the nettle that stung me.

I'm surprised that you haven't had a nibble on this. I have one and it's a seriously sharp lens wide open. Really smooth to focus too.

And a little bump

Derek

Just a couple from the last few days,

You won't get much better than that.
Cracking shot
Derek

I also have that lens,, it's a fantastic little thing and looks great too. Welcome aboard and looking forward to seeing some shots.

Derek

Cheers,
as far as i know and from looking it up, the filter needs to be on to get the wb, otherwise still in same boat. You are spot on about the bright green grass though, camera needs to recognize the grass as being white with filter on or it defeats the purpose.

Cheers David, to be honest I'm not looking to try and take colour shots with the r72, the question about wb came up because when using a custom wb you can see in camera whether or not you have captured enough ir light to make the greens pop, that kind of white when converted to mono. It's difficult to see or tell if they will when the shot is red. In the last shot above its clear in camera that the grass and foliage have that pop.
If I was trying to shoot colour ir I would need to convert a body to do so and shoot in 590 ir or there abouts .

Cheers
Derek

To all of you that have ordered the beautiful K1, I wish you all the best with them,
I will get one eventually, until then I will have to make do looking at all your posts on here. I'm not jealous, just very very

Derek