Pipe Vine Swallowtail Btrfly

Spicebush Btrfly - sports mode with a Sony Mavica 75 (1.2 megapixels)

does not deliver enough detail?

The image has little contrast and blurred detail. Sorry but I think the equipment was not up to the task here.

It's more like kind of noisy. This looks like it was enlarged from a section of the overall image capture. You can clean up some of the noise but 1.2 is not enough to provide a large image. You should be able to do a small image with reasonable detail but when you enlarge it you will get this type of result. The more pixels the larger the image and the more detail that can be discerned. I would look for a camera that has the ability to do macro and has more MP so that you can crop down without having to expand the image.

-thanks for your comments --you said what I have

reluctantly realized --1.2mgpixels ain't enough.

Thinking about updating to Pentax ist * digital

with 6 megapixels. ;-))