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Discovered this beauty under the fake plastic boulder that covers our well, when I was mowing today. I kept my distance, and cropped after the fact, though I wish I had added my 2X extender to the 80 mm Fuji macro. Handheld at 1/1250 seconds with OIS, f/4, ISO 5000, overcast sky lighting. Google Lens identifies it as a Southern Black Widow.

Not really comparing anymore because I’m happy with the 8 f3.5 but here are some more shots from said lens last night and early this morning from Thornham and Wells, Norfolk, UK …. Comments welcome! Best, David

Photosol, who makes Eclipse sensor cleaning fluid, recommends their Type 2 swab, 17mm: https://photosol.com/swabchart/ p.s. Welcome to the forum.

Resolved the issue. If someone has the same issue. It seems that the hot-shoe and flash are a really tight fit, and I had to wriggle it the last bit. It stops right before it is supposed to with a click, which made me think it had reached the slot it was supposed to. Pushing with force was less effective than wriggling. So. User error.

Well, no. Or maybe. It depends on things you can do now and on keeping your options open. On its own, there is nothing wrong with the 256GB cards, they are fine. That size should let you put over 4000 raw files on it before you need to move them over to your computer. Or roughly 3500 raw and jpeg files if you are saving both at once. However, if you get several smaller ones, you can swap them out if you are photographing an event, so that if something bad does happen to a card, you have not lost everything. Also, the smaller sizes usually are less expensive, so you can buy the faster ones for the day you decide to try recording videos — video need the higher speed cards, ones that are just fine for images sometimes have problems with video. Unless, of course you are intending to start recording videos right now and need the space. Or the place you are getting them from is having a sale on the larger ones.