New Toy

[Charlieh]

Gymnopilus penetrans (rusty wood rotter)

coming off this Larch tree

[Charlieh]

Bulgaria inquinans (black bulgar)

this is on some dead ash, which isnt the most common host,

 

some common ink caps

[Charlieh]

My two hazel nuts on my contorted hazel

 

End of an oak log i cut last week

 

bumblee bee on black knapweed

 

hoverfly on black knapweed

[Charlieh]

and finally a pollen beatle in a bean flower

 

 

its great having a decent camera again, especially one with a macro lense

[David Humphries]

Nice subject matter Charlie, what's the new toy?

 

Have you got yourself a tripod?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Charlieh]

new toy (sorry should have said ) is a pentax k100d as i have an old mz-50 35mm slr that i havent used for two years as not wanting the hastle of films, so bought this off ebay and went and picked up thursday night, i love it so easy to use,

 

i have a sigma macro lense i have bought with it, to go with the old 35mm lenses i have (thats why i went for pentax) i have a 80-320 telephoto, a smaller lense i cant remember and this new macro lense,

 

I have a tripod, but didnt use it on these pics as the camera (not the lense) has a built in image stabilisation system that can be turned on and off,

 

all pentax lenses fit all pentax cameras, (some features not work) but they will all fit, so i didnt have to replace my lenses

 

 

the small B. inquinans is actually only about 4mm tall

[tommer9]

Amazing pics mate. Wish i knew how to do that.

[Bart]

Great pictures, awesome detail and colours.

[Charlieh]

these were taken with the camera basic settings just set to macro, i havent played with the finer settings yet, i just love the detail its getting compared to my cheapy camera, i hadnt upgraded in the past as i didnt realise that the pentax film and digital lenses worked together, else i would have had one sooner, rather than having the lenses set in a box for about 2 years,

[David oakman]

You will be getting good shots with that camara charlieh:001_smile: