A small photo report of the critters shot with the new Tokina AT-X Pro 100\2.8 macro lens.

At first I entertained myself with spiders and cockroaches, only sometimes I found something more exotic, but closer to winter mantises came.... Oooh they are just incredibly photogenic 🙂 When you crawl around him with a camera he turns his head in your direction and pulls his paws, like take me in your arms, meow 🙂 I haven't been able to catch a big cricket on a big camera yet, and the phone at night is rubbish.

On New Year's Eve I unexpectedly got a real macro lens - Tokina Macro 100mm\2.8 and decided to go to the botanical garden to take pictures, because I had been there several times, but without a camera. In practice, macro turned out to be not so easy and about 70% of the footage flew into the trash because of shakiness. The shutter speed of 1\320 was sometimes not enough because the photographer wobbles, the flower wobbles, the bumblebee moves... aaaaaaah. In general, as experienced people say, a stabelizer on macro lenses is useless because the world around you is constantly moving. Below are 40 shots of what didn't move much.