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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 822858" data-attributes="member: 53455">Very cute, Robin, I like it!The next photo could be called The macro lens in the big church. It was taken in October 2021, just a few days before the Nikkor 100-400mm telephoto was launched, which explains why it wasn’t yet part of my kit. I knew I needed a lens longer than the 85mm tilt-shift, because in churches there are many details that are way up there and you need serious reach to photograph them. On a previous trip, I had tested the Sigma 135mm , ƒ/1.8 Art, and before that I used to work with the Zeiss Apo-Sonnar 135mm ƒ/2, manual focus (that was stolen from me in a train in France). For the October 2021 photo trip to the French region of Saintonge, during which this photo was taken (this is the Saint Peter Romanesque church in the village of Aulnay), I had brought the Micro-Nikkor 105mm. Aside from being an amazing macro lens, I wanted to show it could be used as a medium telephoto for general photography, and it proved more than up to the task. Of course, it lacked reach, but having a 45-megapixel sensor means you can shoot in DX if needed and still have enough definition to work with in most use cases.Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z MC 105mm, ƒ/2.8 S VR macro lens. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head.[ATTACH=full]408877[/ATTACH]</blockquote>