Using the Novoflex bellows outdoors

Last weekend I went for a short trip with my Pentax A* 200mm macro lens attached to the Novoflex auto bellows on my camera. The initial setting would allow me to capture macro images at about 1.5:1 lifesize. As usually I trusted the flash to minimize the camera shake I had so I left the tripod a home.
Viewing through the open aperture was great so I had a clear vision of my composition before I released the shutter. I had to find some spots in the budh though that were windfree, 4 beaufort is too much normally to get the images right. I encountered some shiny bugs that were very nice subjects for my short macro trips and managed to get the images I wanted.
All in all a worthwile experiment that learned me that it's a big, but usable setup when travelling outdoors, something that definately will see some extra use in the months to come.