If your camera will not let you get close enough, you can buy supplementary
close up lenses which screw into the filter rings. These allow the camera to
go closer and are numebred in diopters which is equal to 1000/f where f is
the focal length of the lens in mm.

From my days taking real close ups of poisonous snakes, the best arrangement
is to use the camera lens at telephoto and then the supplementary lens.

If you have interchangeable lenses then a telephoto with extension tubes
gives a slightly better picture, but it might suffer from vignetting.

I haven't tried digital cameras yet, but this information will apply as it
is purely optical.

Ruary Rudd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen D. Oland" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Digital bee pictures


>
> If you want close-ups pay very close attention to the minimum focus
> distance -- on many digital cameras, it is MUCH farther out than this one,
> so close ups are impossible.

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