http://www.elharo.com/blog/nature/bugs/2009/05/17/fun-with-a-macro-lens/ Ranting and Raving Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:00:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.elharo.com/blog/nature/bugs/2009/05/17/fun-with-a-macro-lens/comment-page-1/#comment-778574 Jamison Sun, 31 May 2009 15:22:07 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/?p=1002337#comment-778574 I have the much lower-end Canon 450, the "P" is not the fully automatic mode, the "Green Rounded Square" is. Maybe things have changed on the newer models, on mine the "P" is the manual settings mode. On my Canon you can only set the focus point(s) when it is the "P" mode. It took me a long time to figure out which button it was, because I couldn't be bothered to find my manual. I always set it to middle focus point only, I find that the auto-selection of focus points is not very good. It should be a little more heavily weighted on the centre point. It is particularly poor close-in, it will always favour a background point. I have the much lower-end Canon 450, the “P” is not the fully automatic mode, the “Green Rounded Square” is. Maybe things have changed on the newer models, on mine the “P” is the manual settings mode.
On my Canon you can only set the focus point(s) when it is the “P” mode. It took me a long time to figure out which button it was, because I couldn’t be bothered to find my manual.
I always set it to middle focus point only, I find that the auto-selection of focus points is not very good. It should be a little more heavily weighted on the centre point. It is particularly poor close-in, it will always favour a background point.

]]> http://www.elharo.com/blog/nature/bugs/2009/05/17/fun-with-a-macro-lens/comment-page-1/#comment-772607 yachris Mon, 18 May 2009 12:54:56 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/?p=1002337#comment-772607 Nice one. I remember asking a friend who is a photography expert about my new camera, and what to expect. He said, "Your macro mode will have the approximate depth-of-field of a cigarette paper" :-) Yours is a lot better, but still, when the front half of a *fly* is in focus and the back half isn't... Nice one. I remember asking a friend who is a photography expert about my new camera, and what to expect. He said, “Your macro mode will have the approximate depth-of-field of a cigarette paper” :-) Yours is a lot better, but still, when the front half of a *fly* is in focus and the back half isn’t…

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