Well two lenses arrived to much excitement, late yesterday afternoon (Zeiss Makro Planar 100/2) and today (Contax N 70-200). Unfortunately I found the Contax has a faulty AF/MF switch and rotating the aperture ring in MF mode elicits no change in aperture at all - bummer
The seller has agreed to a return.
Anyway into the garden I go to get a few practice shots in with the 100/2 on the Sony A7 .... I'm going to love this lens, can't wait to use it for landscape and portraits too
Grey and overcast isn't a bad thing for macro but it did affect the handheld shutter speeds when trying to shoot at f8 (and I couldn't be bothered to bring out the macro rails & flashes), most of these are taken at f2.8 (the aperture doesn't show up in the EXIF). So here are some shots of the smallest flowers I could find :
ca.100% crop
ca. 100% crop