Now what?

[whacky]

Well I now have a 60mm macro to go with my D70. But i'm not going to wait until i can get it wet to start familiarizing myself with the camera and controls. But what to do.

Has anyone got any simple things I can try to get used to how the camera acts

[Cussy]

Find a butterfly farm. It will teach you most of what you need to know, apart from low light focus.

[whacky]

Great idea I was going to start with a few stuffed toys and move on from there, I have a week off soon looks like i will be butterfly hunting

[Cussy]

Guess where I'm going Saturday? Managed to persuade the kids a day at the butterflies would be fun!

[whacky]

LOL I won't have to convince anyone, where you going. I assume you'll be using the 105 though?

[Cussy]

Originally Posted by whacky

LOL I won't have to convince anyone, where you going. I assume you'll be using the 105 though?

Going to the Rutland Water Butterfly Farm. Will play around with the 105, but also planning to do a full spherical panorama of the kids in the butterfly farm (depending on how busy it is and patient they are). I need to find out why my 105 isn't as sharp as the 50 underwater. I could do this on a toy, but fancy the idea of "real" macro.
Rob

[KenByrne]

Originally Posted by Cussy

I need to find out why my 105 isn't as sharp as the 50 underwater. I could do this on a toy, but fancy the idea of "real" macro.
Rob

Not sure if it's relevant to what you're seeing but you'll get less depth of field with the 105, not that you get a lot with the 50 shooting macro.

[Cussy]

Originally Posted by KenByrne

Not sure if it's relevant to what you're seeing but you'll get less depth of field with the 105, not that you get a lot with the 50 shooting macro.

That's not the issue I think. Either I'm failing to hold the whole thing steady once it's focused or the port is scratched; I had to polish the inside of the Ikelite port to remove some scratches that were visible on my first trip to St Abbs. I got some really good compositions with the 105mm, but they just aren't as sharp as the shots from the 50mm. No difference in settings and I tend to try and shoot macro at high f numbers, unless I'm going for a restricted depth of field effect.
Rob

[whacky]

In the abscence of butterflies i shamelessly stole something i saw from another website (possibly Tazzies ) and have been taking pictures of batteries

[Tazzie]

Originally Posted by whacky

In the abscence of butterflies i shamelessly stole something i saw from another website (possibly Tazzies ) and have been taking pictures of batteries

LOL not mine, I'm a serial rubber duckie photographer when trying out new things! Let's see the pics! Did you get what you were after?