> The last few months I have been seeing links to great bee pictures!
> If its not too off topic, could some of you photographers out there, offer
> some advice on a good digital macro camara?

Don, I'm just starting beekeeping and make photo's of whatever comes along.
It is great fun to be able to show others the things that keep me occupied, which is
bees at the moment and it aids in my beekeeping learning process.
In my case, it's a camera from work that I can take home, I only dot down my
name on a list (that I made myself, to show my good intentions) so that my
colleagues know who's got it. Amongst other things we use it at work to take
pictures of turbine blades, using an adaptor and borescope.
The camera is a few years old by now, so no longer the latest on the market. It
is an Olympus Camedia C-2500L. (2,5 milion pixels). It has a zoom lens that is
equal to a 36-110mm zoom lens of a 35mm camera, so the zooming happens
optically, which is better than the digitally zooming cameras. Memory cards for
it come in sizes from 2-64MB or 96MB for a compact flash type. This camera
has a macro and super-macro setting for close-ups. In super-macro I have more
than once managed to touch bees with the lens, but the documented minimum
distance is 2 cm.
Hopefully that gave you some idea.

Ron van Mierlo

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