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| Meadow grasshopper, Chorthippus parallelus, in a grassy clearing in the woods on Hayes Common, 17 May 2011. |
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| Meadow grasshopper, Chorthippus parallelus, in a grassy clearing in the woods on Hayes Common, 17 May 2011. |
These were both taken with my Canon EOS 450D and the EF 100mm USM macro lens, with the MR-14EX ring flash. I am still experimenting with this combination and I am not yet achieving the sharpness on these field shots that I can achieve with a still subject back at home, or with the little Ixus 100 for that matter. But the autofocus is fast and accurate. The Ixus wouldn't have focused on the right subject among all this grass. If you can find it!
Found it in the grass, and the close-up is splendid. Taking time to focus is one of the problems with many digitals, compared with what I could do with my F2 Nikon manually--but at 77 my eyes are not good enough for that.
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