Thanks Charles -- more good advice. I will give this test a try.

Eric

Ah, yes, now I see; amazing! Charles -- thanks very much for explaining that to me, as I was completely misinterpreting it (even thinking that perhaps the legends for the two shots had been switched...).

Eric

Thanks Charles. Your comparison of the CF N 10/.30 versions is very interesting. I am a little puzzled by the single image shots though... I think for a CF N 10/.30 I will wait for BF only. I do have several other objectives in this magnification -- including an Olympus 10/.30 S Plan (which I'm disa...

Thanks Charles; you've given me a complete and very informative answer. Anyway, the older I get, the more I learn how few complexities can be answered in simple yes or no/ black or white terms.... I haven't tried to work with any objectives on 'real' bellows yet. Rather, I am using the equivalent of...

Charles, I have been following your discussion with Alex with great interest (as with all of your discussions!). You mentioned that no Nikon CF Plan Achros were presently available on eBay -- but there was one: a Plan 10/0.30 DL, the phase version of the CF N 10x/.30, which has the same specificatio...

P-T,

Your fly is a species of Bactrocera, family Tephritidae. This is a large genus of fruit flies -- and many Bactrocera spp. are very serious pests of fruits.