Originally posted by tryphon4 I agree, this lens is excellent.
This lens has only one drawback: it is almost physically impossible to couple it with a teleconverter or with extension rings.
I don't intend to use them on any analog cameras, so I removed the aperture simulator from mine (1.7x TC and the smallest in a set of rings with A-contacts). Alternatively, one would have to modify the Irix bayonet. The same problem exists with the Laowa 100mm 2x macro, btw.
I actually like the TC combo a lot, no craving for any longer, impossible to find macro lenses anymore. There is very nice detail at 1.7x (see e.g.
https://flic.kr/p/2narpLU, a handheld 5 imagae stack), and renders equally beautiful as the lens on its own, like in
https://flic.kr/p/2n7vYxY, with excellent transition zones both in the foreground and in the background.