Thanks for your reply. I had thought you were maybe using a shade of some sort.
In some ways this camera takes me back to my childhood and home b&w processing - taking the film out of the tank - did they 'come out'. As others mentioned, my reason for buying, there is 'something' about the images. I'm thinking of making an '8 by 10' wooden box, put the camera inside, pretend it's an old film camera, then I could use a black cloth :thumbup:.
The following images are possibly the best of 20. The green apple one, I would have liked to have got the dead flower in focus. There was no processing, other than in pp4 to convert raw image, and saved as jpg (then loading the jpg into Irfan view, and saving as a smaller jpg for uploading). The first two images were virtually shooting blind, in bright sun, but the last one was taken indoors, where I could more easily see the screen, so I could at least check what was in focus, and compose the shot...
The sensor does render detail nicely, and not necessarily seen here, I think the colour graduations are superb. Sometimes I get chromatic aberrations from the cheap macro lens, but it is easily removed in pp.
The older I get, the more there is to learn:lecture:
Best wishes,
Ray