May 2025

[Fons Baerken]

May 27

On my bike

Zf  -  Z28mm f/2.8

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Small shiny insect.

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Another uncropped one

[Birna Rørslett]

You are into ladybugs now?

[Frank Fremerey]

May 27
On my bike
Zf  -  Z28mm f/2.8

unreal

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You are into ladybugs now?

Birna, are photos. Macro type.

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With another objective

[Birna Rørslett]

More ladybugs Aphids, beware.

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More ladybugs Aphids, beware.

I already saw on your website NAERFOTO that you were bitten by a dangerous bug, these are different, they are not vampires,

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I think the final insect comes out in the following way, it happened in my garden.

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At the beginning and at the end?

[Birna Rørslett]

Ladybugs (Coccinellidae; ladybirds, lady bird beetles) are voracious predators and carnivores, but most are harmless to us. They consume a lot of aphids thus gardeners like them very much. They undergo many stages from larvae to the adult insect.

[Birna Rørslett]

I just got the Lumix pancake lens 14mm f/2.5 for my IR GF1 cameras. It's a good lens and does well in IR; hardly any hot spot can be detected. On the flip side the design has a lot of barrel distortion that becomes quite visible at middle to near distance. Most of the distortion disappears with judicious post processing and probably would have been taken care of in proprietary software or adequate lens profiles.

Anyway, so far I like it as a walk-around IR lens.

[Akira]

Triplet.

[Fons Baerken]

unreal

Indeed Frank! Indeed!