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Taken yesterday.... only modification is cropping. Would appreciate

comments on any changes to improve image.

Jason, Great shot!

excuse me for the question: which was the dragonfly size? I own your same equipment and I'm very disappointing with its macro capabilities and sharpness! Have you used raw format?

Thanks for info

Daniele,

The dragon fly was probably 3 inches long or so. I too was displeased with some of my first macro-type shots from the D70 with the kit lens. Before the D70 I had an ANCIENT Minolta 35mm which was STRICTLY no frills... no autofocus... had metering but only aperture priority and no true manual setting, etc. For my first macros with the new setup, I was shooting at F4.5 with autofocus on. For the latest shots, I used F8-F10 and purely manual focus. I could get REALLY close to subjects? a lot closer than when AF was on. The big issue is that the focusing screen is so small that it is really hard to determine when you are in sharp focus. I had many shots that looked in focus when I took them but blown up, the target was not sharp. I shot about 60 frames yesterday and only about 20 were in really sharp focus. I have taken in both large, fine jpeg and RAW. The shot you commented on started as a RAW. To be honest, I can?t tell a whole lot of different between the high end jpegs and the RAW shots from this camera. You can do more manipulation with the RAW images because you have more information with which to work, but if the original is a good quality image and doesn?t require much ?cleaning up?, the jpegs work great for me. Hope all this helps.