So near yet so far

Dman said:

What a waste. The macro feature of the D7i is quite disappointed. I
saw a fly this afternoon and rush to get my D7i. The Fly didn't fly
always and it keep coming close to my len. So near that my macro
could not focus. If I got a 2 or 3 cm macro, i sure get a super
close up of the fly. It happen earlier on as I saw a spider on my
cupboard but I hardly could get a close up of it. If I could afford
a DSLR type, I sure get a good macro for this kind of photos. Hope
Minolta could do something about this if they could. What a
waste.........

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Guess Minolta has a couple of bugs to work on!

Dman said:

What a waste. The macro feature of the D7i is quite disappointed. I
saw a fly this afternoon and rush to get my D7i. The Fly didn't fly
always and it keep coming close to my len. So near that my macro
could not focus. If I got a 2 or 3 cm macro, i sure get a super
close up of the fly. It happen earlier on as I saw a spider on my
cupboard but I hardly could get a close up of it. If I could afford
a DSLR type, I sure get a good macro for this kind of photos. Hope
Minolta could do something about this if they could. What a
waste.........

Dman

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Hi, hope you dont mind me posting a couple of insect shots taken with my D7i...these were my first attempts and im pleased with them anyway..i did attatch a closeup lens...the shots were handheld.





Regards,
Phil.

This is not a bug!! He's trying to use the camera in a way that the camera specs themselves say can't be done. Minolta never claimed the D7i can do what he's trying to do with it.

Why do people love to react to any half-baked, unsubstantiated whining about the camera not being able to do the impossible with claims they've found another bug in the camera? It frightens me to think that someone who doesn't yet have a D7i and reads these messages will actually believe this drivel and decide against the purchase.

Get your facts straight before making claims!

--Larry

John Stavick said:

Dman said:

What a waste. The macro feature of the D7i is quite disappointed. I
saw a fly this afternoon and rush to get my D7i. The Fly didn't fly
always and it keep coming close to my len. So near that my macro
could not focus. If I got a 2 or 3 cm macro, i sure get a super
close up of the fly. It happen earlier on as I saw a spider on my
cupboard but I hardly could get a close up of it. If I could afford
a DSLR type, I sure get a good macro for this kind of photos. Hope
Minolta could do something about this if they could. What a
waste.........

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Guess Minolta has a couple of bugs to work on!

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--Larry

psherratt said:

Hi, hope you dont mind me posting a couple of insect shots taken
with my D7i...these were my first attempts and im pleased with them
anyway..i did attatch a closeup lens...the shots were handheld.
Regards,
Phil.

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Thanks Phil, sur e I don't mind. I found out another way to get a super macro. By using the digital zoom once you set the lock on the target (esp insects) I try with other stuff, it works!!!

Dman

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Dat Ei said:

Hey Dman,

I just had a look at your pics and galleries, especially at your
gallery with the old photos. On most of them you see, that they are
quiet old. Bad colors, bad contrast. I don´t know if you use
photoshop, but perhaps you like to hear that you can improof those
old shots by miles. There is a fantastic book from Katrin Eismann
on the market, which handles the restoration of old pics. The title
is "Photoshop Restoration and Retouching". Great book. If you´ve
successfully restored an old pic once, you won´t stop. You see what
personal value your pics have and how much they mean to you. Often
I get a shiver when I look on those irrecoverable pics shining like
new pics or like been taken yesterday.

Dat Ei

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Thanks for comments but sad to say. Those photos are scan from the film camera and therefore, I leave it as it was, don't bother to "disturb" them. Else, what is call old then? lol!!!

Dman

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Dman said:

Thanks for comments but sad to say. Those photos are scan from the
film camera and therefore, I leave it as it was, don't bother to
"disturb" them. Else, what is call old then? lol!!!

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Hey Dman,

it was clear that those pics are scans. I did some restoring on scanned pics which are about 40 years old (some of them are b/w). You won´t believe what you can make out of those shots until you you have tried it once. Absolutly astonishing! And by the way you learn a lot about postprocessing of actual digi pics. But if you don´t bother, forget about my tip.

Dat Ei

same with the camera for you I guess !! hee hee

Dman said:

If you want your car that fast, simple. Throw away your current
one, get a car that can do that but be warn, you need $$$$, haha!!!

Dman
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Larry Cunningham said:

This is not a bug!!

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Larry, chill out man...it was a joke...a couple of bugs, a fly and a spider...get it...sort of a play on words.

He's trying to use the camera in a way that the

Larry Cunningham said:

camera specs themselves say can't be done. Minolta never claimed
the D7i can do what he's trying to do with it.

Why do people love to react to any half-baked, unsubstantiated
whining about the camera not being able to do the impossible with
claims they've found another bug in the camera?

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Larry, I couldn't agree more with you. I have never in my life seen so many whiners than on this Minolta forum. Everyone just loves to tear this camera apart, and I don't understand it...for it is one of the most feature laiden...cheapest digitals...on the market at the present. If it isn't my batteries will not last for a week, it's my poster prints have noise in them, and my camera won't focus in moonlight. It's a big joke!

This is my second Dimage, had a 7 and now the 7i. I absolutely love this camera. It does a super fantastic job with everything I've thrown at it. Jesus, if anyone is that unhappy with the D7i, sell it and buy something else. Go out and enjoy taking some beautiful pictures...which it is certainally capable of doing and quit moaning about every little thing that one can imagine. Someone in a thread wrote it's only a freaking camera...how true!
It frightens me to

Larry Cunningham said:

think that someone who doesn't yet have a D7i and reads these
messages will actually believe this drivel and decide against the
purchase.

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I also have to agree with this too...it would certainally turn me off if I didn't know better.

Larry Cunningham said:

Get your facts straight before making claims!

--Larry

John Stavick said:

Dman said:

What a waste. The macro feature of the D7i is quite disappointed. I
saw a fly this afternoon and rush to get my D7i. The Fly didn't fly
always and it keep coming close to my len. So near that my macro
could not focus. If I got a 2 or 3 cm macro, i sure get a super
close up of the fly. It happen earlier on as I saw a spider on my
cupboard but I hardly could get a close up of it. If I could afford
a DSLR type, I sure get a good macro for this kind of photos. Hope
Minolta could do something about this if they could. What a
waste.........

Click to expand...

Guess Minolta has a couple of bugs to work on!

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--Larry

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John Stavick said:

Larry Cunningham said:

This is not a bug!!

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Larry, chill out man...it was a joke...a couple of bugs, a fly and
a spider...get it...sort of a play on words.

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Sorry, I honestly didn't get the joke at the time. I'm getting so tired of seeing a certain pattern in threads these days that I might have over-reacted a bit in this one. The pattern I'm referring to:

1. Someone who hasn't done their research or doesn't even own the camera makes some bogus or exaggerated claim about a bug or shortcoming of the camera.

2. A string of other, equallly uninformed, forum visitors jump on the bandwagon with whining about Minolta either being incompetent or (even more ludicrous) conspiring to somehow cheat camera owners out of their money by deliberately incorporating flaws in the design. They wave their arms and demand an immediate fix for this "serious problem" they actually don't know anything about.

I honestly feel sorry for casual visitors to this forum who read these threads and don't have any way of knowing what's garbage and what isn't. These are often folks who are trying to make a difficult decision on a future camera purchase, and they're hungry for any information they can get their hands on. There's so much unwarranted whining on this forum that I wouldn't blame some of these visitors if they were turned off to Minolta cams by all the complaining. And that would be a real shame.

I'll get off my soapbox now and lighten up.

--Larry

Nice shots Phil - may have to invest in a close up lens. (and I told my wife my 7i related spending was over for awhile - uh oh) This one is just plain ol 7i at closest focus distance. The finger is my 7 year old nephew. The frog is one "hatched" this year in my backyard pond. The pic posted here is shrunk.

Go here to see full resolution crop of the froggie
http://www.pbase.com/image/3597576

Boy I love my 7i!!!

what close up lens did you use Phil and is it with macro mode?

Just like to know as I bought a +3 close up lens and haven't tried using it yet.

Larry Cunningham said:

Dman:

A follow-up to this comment: Name a camera, ANY camera which in
combination with its standard lens can do the trick you expect your
DiMAGE to do. Bet you can't.

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My 5700 has taken a couple of good pics of UK flies (not the kind that take off when you get so close) at around 3cm. This is rather exceptional, though, and isn't the case with most stock lenses.

Larry Cunningham said:

No camera can do absolutely everything you might want it to do. Get
over it.

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But boy, are you right about this - the 5700 AF system is not without its issues and the aforementioned cluster of lens barrel-mounted buttons are almost criminal

Don't think I'd change it now, though I went through a period of preferring the ergonomics of the 7i.