So here we are within reach of winter and I thought I'd post a few more photos from the little S120 set-up. Not a lot has changed, though I now have all three achromats screwed in line without the snap-on adapters when I need them, and the lighting-rig has settled on its final design. I did buy myself another S120 from e-Bay as I said I would, so you can expect to be bored for a couple more years, hopefully.
This is the rig as I am shooting it now; everything still comes apart and can go in two pockets.
And here are the victims, starting with a Southern Emerald darter
A Zoropsis spinimana, a freshly moulted young lady about 1.5' in diameter
A Speckled bush cricket
A hoverfly - Episyrphus balteatus
A muscidae fly
The Southern Green shieldbug
Southern darter in end of season plumage
A green-eyed Tabanidae horsefly - these guys bite with gusto!
A weevil, probably a Sitona species.
And another Z. spinimana
I have a few more pics up in my gallery if you've not fallen asleep and like small bugs - all proof to me that a small 1/1.7 sensor can do a decent job when it comes to a little bit of close-up photography :-D .....this is not to say that a full-frame rig with a mp‑e 65mm is not on the horizon; I just have to buy some lottery tickets first.
Oh, and just to prove I do take photos of other things, here's our local coastline taken with the same S120. This is looking south past the old fishing huts to Medoc country on the south coast of the Gironde estuary, western France,
Thanks for looking, hope you found something interesting; it's certainly been an interesting adventure for me and the S120
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Some of the coolest things in life are really, really small.
