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It is my hope to bring this lens to heel. Slight success so far.

The ant is in focus not because of any effort on my part and certainly not any effort on the part of the lens. Luck happens.

The 60mm f2.4 renders colors beautifully on the X-T1. But it is sheer hell to focus.

If the moving subject is a snail. It is a nice, sharp lens, no doubt about that. But it searches to focus, no matter what button is pushed. If it captures the critical moment, it will do so by sheer luck.

I've had the 60mm f2.4 macro Fujinon for more than a decade and have practically never used it. It is roundly disliked, in no small measure due to its endless searching for focus. I read a little about it the last few days and decided to give it another chance. This time I set it to manual focus and used the AF-L switch on the back.

I think that stuff grows as fast as I can walk. At least here it makes itself useful.

Shooting at 850nm produces a black-and-white picture, so there's no need to channel swap in processing. But it is often useful to raound off the edges a little by bringing down the highlights and boosting the shadows a bit. Turns out, there's space in both.