I just got me a Lomo T-43, 40mm f4. I don’t have a focusing coil yet, but anything can be solved if you’re poor enough and in a hurry
I simply took the mounting ring from an old extension tube, and put on a whole lot of masking tape so that it just about fits in there.
So now I can focus by pushing and pulling the lens in and out of the body just have to be careful to lift the mirror first
Cats are notoriously difficult to photograph, especially when 20cm away from their face, but the images also shows how sharp this actually can be when focused properly.
And for the crappiest portrait photograph of the year I nominate… For this one I focused and marked the floor. Had to do a couple of shots before I found the right position. Not perfectly in focus, but I gave up at this point.
Btw. my most used lens is a Olympus Zuiko 50mm 1,8, that 3,5 macro is on my list though
More for the respective bodies with analog film.
But digitization would be with APS-C then. Then again, the time for really good deals seems to come to an end. 5-6 Years ago there were some spectacular deals to be had. I missed that opportunity.
In keeping with the floral macro theme, here is one from a while back with a Carl Zeiss Jenna Tessar 50mm f2.8 using an extension tube.
Resized for web, so I added a crop to show show detail.
I’ve been on the hunt for a good Jenna Tessar for quite some time — they’re common enough, but all three copies I’ve acquired thus far have stuck irises (it’s a common issue with this particular lens, but it’s a real pain to fix).
Answer: Agatha Christie — the best-selling novelist of all time — who was born in Torquay, England in 1890. To celebrate her centenary, a hand-crafted bronze bust was made in her likeness.
This week, two things were released. They most certainly are small!
Here, they rest on a pad of ordinary printer paper. (See mouse at the back as a scale indicator.)
Here is a close-up of one of the things, enhanced by the power of imagemagick.
I wonder what might it be… A flower? A fruit? A mini-coconut?
just have to be careful to lift the mirror first 
