Costa Rican Damselfly

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Costa Rican Damselfly

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Was flying around on the rain forest path
Handheld auto everything

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A beautiful insect. To me the focus doesn't look quite right here.
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Hi Mike, the Canon PowerShot manual states that the camera will have trouble with auto focus with closeup shots. If you do not have enough time to take a few shots or wait till the AF finds what you want, you have to take what you can. I find the manual focus very awkward with this camera; you have to hold in the small manual focus button and go up and down through a slide bar while you look at the small LCD Focus Square. If you can picture that! I really miss a good focus ring on the lens. On this camera, You put the focus square on what you want and it will focus on the thing right past it or next to it. I guess I Tend to push this little camera past its limits :wink: Your comments and suggestions are always welcome :)
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I got started with this with a Powershot Pro 90, and yes, the manual focus was awful! :roll:
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It's not too bad on focus. The wings are a little OOF, but the body is sharp enough. Beautiful blue in this critter.
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My good friend, Beetlehunter on this forum, used an S1 IS with a Canon 250d last year and got quite a few remarkable shots. He did not use AF or try to adjust the MF, just put it in MF and moved the camera to get good focus. He(we) hasn't mastered composition yet, but is getting the focusing down.

Check out his work at:

http://crotermund.smugmug.com/Photomacrography

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Thank you for that link Ken.....great photos. Will have to try the manual focus way
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