I want , I want , I want ..

Yes the MPE_65 is a manual focus only lens , quite a few users need the adaptation of specifically designed flash units to make compensation of the SS and Aperture issues , but with good light it is awesome . I would like to get one for purely for the magnification qualities , I should have never bought the 100 2.8 non is unit a I find it has a ratio of about 5 % keeper.

With a metabones lens adaptor I can use it on the Sony and get a better DR than Canon can deliver and still keep contact with settings . Shame I have to buy 2 adaptors if I intend to use the OLY as well.

You have a good 60mm already but take a look at the new VENUS 60mm - gives quite a high magnification and gets good reviews. I have tried their flash unit by the way. Not that impressed. Really poorly made and incredibly heavy on batteries. Sometimes it works then not. All in all a poor buy IMHO. The lens looks a better bet - though if you already have a 60 not really worth it I guess. The Olympus 60 is a stunning lens anyway.

Finlaysons Squirrel at Khao Toe Sae, Phuket.

^ Cute!

Would like to have a tame one, sitting on my shoulder, tickling my earlobe...

Little Grasshopper

^ Cute!

Would like to have a tame one, sitting on my shoulder, tickling my earlobe...

Phew........Thank Buddha, you are only asking for your earlobe to be tickled

Flower Hopping

^ Cute!

Would like to have a tame one, sitting on my shoulder, tickling my earlobe...

He disappeared after a couple of weeks. Maybe the monkeys got him, or maybe he got too tame and a two-legged predator got him.

But we certainly kept him well fed while he was there. Of course, he may have been a she.

bugger used all my likes ..again ..

not sure if this is abstract or nature.. it is a snail- shell only..

if you look at it for a while it changes ... can you see it ???

being a bit cheeky here me thinks...

Water on Mars... no its snail trails. slime !!.

shadows actually of snail shells..but what the heck be imaginative.. we all are ye ha!

One bit me taking this !

Rat snake I think, he had just eaten a rather fat frog, but I could not a pic of that....

How to catch a snake, provide a dark hole... he went right in the tube .... then taken to a new location.... (not killed!)

A day of nature pictures today! Shedded snake skin...

Still slithering around somewhere!

One bit me taking this !

¿ Which one ?

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One bit me taking this !

¿ Which one ?

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don't know but it's still itching! Don't bees die after stinging ..... I did not go to check to see which one!

^ You've said it bit you, so, maybe still alive...

He disappeared after a couple of weeks. Maybe the monkeys got him, or maybe he got too tame and a two-legged predator got him.

But we certainly kept him well fed while he was there. Of course, he may have been a she.

Excuse my ignorance, just watched the vids; excellence!

This little monster was about 1cm long. I'm glad I never got to meet his mum or dad.

Just a bee .

Wow, Goompa, definitely Wow!

Wow, Goompa, definitely Wow!

+1 - Hey Goompa, I think I can see tiny beads of sweat on the bee's forehead. Perhaps you could get a little closer?!?!?!?

This Piedish Beetle has a head about the size of a short grain rice. This shot was taken handheld: Canon 6D MPE65 all settings manual.

This Piedish Beetle has a head about the size of a short grain rice. This shot was taken handheld: Canon 6D MPE65 all settings manual. Australian Piedish Beetle Walliston 15 07 2015 9913.jpg

Nice shot , what amplification were you using and did you have some flash as well Mousehound ?

This Piedish Beetle has a head about the size of a short grain rice. This shot was taken handheld: Canon 6D MPE65 all settings manual. Australian Piedish Beetle Walliston 15 07 2015 9913.jpg

Nice shot , what amplification were you using and did you have some flash as well Mousehound ?

I was on X4 - the beetle is 5mm at its widest. I have a low power dual flash - tricky - rigged up. Just took a shot of a Moths eye I will put up.

From a coupleof years ago

^ Bird picture - fantastic colour!

Does anyone remember "Quatermass And The Pit"?...

^^ cool bug.. now I know where the monster movie makers get their inspiration for the monsters..TV nature forum !!!

and those tiny jumping spiders with the multiple eyes..more please...

Rice weevils on uncooked grains of rice - a bit too small for my pocket camera.

I don't know what the very small brown bugs were - baby weevils?