[Klaus]

Well, I would postulate that the focus error rate is a "little" higher when doing all this handheld.
But then I'm a mover and shaker ;-)

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Great review of an interesting lens........a breath of fresh air in fact!

  This lens looks to be a better bet than my microscope is.......it's one thing to look at critters and delight in the details of this wonderful world of nature.....and another to actually get decent images.....however the microscope has a far more stable base, macro LED lighting with precise focusing and accurate movement which permits image stacking to some extent. The minus points are the optics are not anything special.......and 100% pixel peeping looks fairly poor.....A4 prints are acceptable though.

 So I'm sure this lens will attract more than it's fair share of attention, being that many have waiting for just this very lens.

 (love the........" it's for the macro extremists who think that conventional macro lenses are just for the faint-hearted")

Thx!

However, taking those sample images drove me nuts really.  I have NO PATIENCE(!!!) for this kind of photography.