Testing, testing

I've been testing the macro capabilities of my new Olympus Tough 5 camera. With my big (actually quite small) Olympus camera back with Olympus for repair and my old compact with its lens permanently stuck, I decided I needed a new back-up compact camera. Trading in some old lenses, that I now never use, provided almost all the funds to get a Tough 5 -  built like a battleship and able to work like a submarine, to 15m underwater, but also with astounding macro performance.

Here you see a handheld shot of the shieldbug Eysarcoris venustissimus, just 6mm long, on a sprig of lavendar that was swaying in the wind. The extra shot is of the cup-shaped gemma receptacles of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis in low-light conditions. With the addition of either the LED ring-light (on order!) or ring flash diffuser accessories, I'm expecting great things. Now no longer fretting about the return of my other camera!