JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

Taken with a Sony A6600 and the Vivitar 90mm f2.8 macro with Godox TT685ii flash. Cropped to include just the flower cluster. An overcast morning caused me to drop down to f4 see well enough to manually focus. Wanted to use f8, but to LCD was just too dark to see to focus.

Wasn't quite at full 1:1 but the little white flowers are 3mm across to give an idea to size of this beetle looking insect with the funny looking snout.

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Don, the 2nd son Loc: Crowded Florida

A beautiful snap of a weevil of some sort. Beetles and weevils are fav targets for my lenses.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Great image!!

tinusbum Loc: east texas

nice clear shot

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

A little while later, and the sun is shining. Found the same plant with the same insect working the flowers. Zoom in all the way and see his snout stuck into an opening flower. Looks like he is vacuuming up the yellow pollen.

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JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

In the flower top center, zoom in all the way and you will see two thrips. Learned the name of this critter a couple days ago. There is also something deeper into the flower that I can see (out of focus), but can see it.

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JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

In looking at pictures of weevils on line, and there are a lot of them, I think it is a grain weevil.

docshark Loc: Millersville, PA

A great set of shots. I do believe that the second one is the lesser of two weevils!
>i< Doc

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Jim, didn't your mother tell you not to make fun of others' noses?

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

I am not familiar with that lens, but I would guess it's a fully manual one so stopping down of course makes things pretty dark. A solution of sorts is to rig up an accessory LED light with a USB plug, powered by a cell phone battery.

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

Yes, it is fully manual. I just completed my purchase of the 3 lens set of macro lenses sold by Vivitar and made by Komine. Consists of a 55mm, a 90mm and a 135mm, all f2.8. All 3 are legendary legends with many reviews. The most famous of the 3 is the 55mm. The 55mm and 90mm are both 1:1 macros and the 135mm is a 1:2 macro.

My first purchase was the 55mm which I had obtained quite a few years ago and it sat unused for a number of years as I did not know of its legend story. I was familiar with other Vivitar lenses being not so steller and I expected the same from this one. And the day finally came where I took a few shots with it and I was blown away with this lens and started Googling it and found out what I had stumbled upon some years ago. These lenses were made for Vivitar by Komine and were in a different league. Regarding this 55mm, Nikon made one that was just like it, and it too has legendary status too. But many reviews rate the Vivitar even higher.

https://www.outsidetheshot.com/vivitar-55mm-f-2-8-macro-lens-review/
https://www.robertallenkautzphoto.com/post/vivitar-55mm-f2-8-macro-review

Later, I discovered that there was a 90mm with a similar legendary pedigree and I found a good buy on eBay and added that one.

https://www.outsidetheshot.com/vivitar-90mm-f-2-8-macro-lens-review/
https://photographypaws.com/the-ultimate-vivitar-90mm-f-2-8-macro-review/

And still later, learned of a 135mm version, also made by Komine. But I bought the wrong one. It was just a normal 135mm f2.8 also made by Komine. And as a normal 135mm f2.8 lens, it was fine and nothing wrong with it. But it wasn't the macro. But a week ago, I found the 135mm f2.8 macro version for $50 on eBay. Normally this lens goes for about $160 to $200. So, someone didn't realize what they were selling. Anyway, it arrived yesterday, and I took some test shots with it, and it was just as good as the other 2. But this one was only a 1:2 macro, and on the lens, it was called "Close Focusing".

https://www.theatreofnoise.com/2013/05/a-look-at-vivitar-135mm-close-focusing.html

I suppose I have more macro lenses than anyone deserves to have. Also have the Asahi Pentax Takumar SMC 100mm f4. another manual focusing lens, to complete the manual focusing macros.

https://fujixweekly.com/2019/12/05/asahi-smc-macro-takumar-50mm-f-4-fujifilm-x-t30/

And also have the Minolta 50mm f2.8 and 100mm f2.8 auto focusing macros. And the Olympus 60mm f2.8 for m43.

So, I have probably all the macro lenses that I could ever probably ever need.

For instance, here is a shot using the old Minolta 100mm f2.8 lens. This plant had clover sized leaves and was about the same size and produces these tiny yellow flowers.

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