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Difficult Spider Shot with SX40 HS

Started Oct 18, 2012 | Discussions thread
Cheryl Meisel Veteran Member • Posts: 3,021
Re: Difficult Spider Shot with SX40 HS

jasenj1 wrote:

This was a difficult shot to get. And it's still not perfectly in focus. I was standing about 2 meters from the spider (so as not to scare it). The auto focus wanted to go past the spider to the distant trees. Manual focus didn't want to focus close enough. Switching to Macro, the camera still couldn't pick up the small spider in the scene. And there's no manual macro focus.

Anyone have suggestions on how to get a small subject suspended like this?

Ohhhhhh gosh that is a NICE SHOT!!!!!  CONGRATS!

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