New lens

[BillE]

Found a used Canon 100mm f/2.8 (none usm), first few attempts hand held.

 

[FUJI]

That looks to be one damn good find Bill......the forget-me-not  study has a beauty all of its own.

i take it is a dedicated Macro lens like my SONY 2.8-100?

 

Strangely enough, I took my SONY A55 out of storage the other evening, put on the Macro lens to shoot flowers, including forgetmenots.

 

FUJI

[BillE]

Chrs Fuji, yeh it goes to 1:1 or just as a 100mm. When I first set eyes on the forget me not in lr I thought "sugar its not in focus", but the more I looked at it the more it grew on me very minimal processing done on it.

I think I will enjoy this lens, as we have a fairly large garden so plenty to shoot, and all in range of the KETTLE!

[Ryewolf]

Great shots, I have the USM version of this lens. I think Paul has the Image Stablisation version. I often use mine with Canon's 12 and 25 Extension Tubes - sometimes both together - though Canon don't recommend that.

[BillE]

I will play at 1:1 for awhile then maybe think about some extension tubes, but I reckon I would get away with the older model canon ones?

 

[fuzzyedges]

Ive used all of Kenko;s extension tubes with mine and although canon say there could be data loss it has never affected any thing I have shot