Just got one of these...




... which lets me take pictures like this ...




... with this.




It's a Q-mount to 52mm reversing ring. Manual everything, of course, and electronic shutter so no vibrations from the camera. The lens is a Cosina 24mm KA that I hardly ever use now. A picture of mm markings on a ruler shows that it gives about 1:1 on the Q-S1 (the garish colour is because it's transparent and backlit by a computer screen):



Its looking promising for a table-top macro setup. And it may just have given a new lease of life to the old Cosina.

Steve

Vintage, heritage, nostalgia and a desire to experience analogue are fashionable at the moment.

Now why have I just bought a new record player to replace an ancient one that was falling apart and hardly ever used? Could have junked the hardly-ever-played vinyl and accepted that digital is what it's all about. But I didn't and am playing the old hiss and crackle again...

Steve

They certainly do. A very worthwhile potter.

Never mind the landscape, the set deserves to be called 'Studies in light' because that's what it is IMHO - the landscape used as a vehicle to catch the light in all its variety.

Steve

Samuel Beckett Bridge and the first Guinness stand out for me.

Pity there wasn't a toucan walking across the cobbles when you took the Guiness shot... or did it go during pp?

Steve

Thank you for your interest, folks. Results from last night are inconclusive. More experimentation is needed. But not tonight. The effects would be masked by the real ale at a real pub that is on tonight's agenda.

Steve

... At least for this lot of pink oyster mushrooms. Harvested and eaten this evening, and very tasty they were too. But they did pose for me before getting the chop. Here are the results. K3 + Sigma 105 macro + LED light.

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Steve

Thanks for the comments, folks.

My GP daughter says they look like the inside of the gut. I couldn't possibly comment. She's been places and seen things that I find hard to imagine.

Steve

The test in underway. An empty glass (once full) is beside me as I type. It's the 2018 vintage.

Steve

Agree 100%.

But the ones that make me want to go there in the flesh are the Kelpies. Driven past them many times but always on the way to somewhere else and no time to stop. The first and the red one make them seem almost alive. Which is what the sculptor presumably intended.

Steve

And brandy.... ??