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It sounds to me, from your post that you are using autofocus. I would recommend that you use manual focus. You can either use the switch on the lens, or the menu item in your camera to switch to manual. It also sounds like you have a focusing rail, which is a good tool for macro work, especially...

"HEEELLLPPPPP MMMEEEEEEEEEEE!" For those of you who don't get that, it is a quote from the 1958 movie "The Fly" with Vincent Price. I saw the movie sometime when I was a kid, but don't remember much except this scene from the end of the movie. OK, in the movie the fly was caught in a web. And...

I wonder if these are tasty with a little melted butter. With flash: And without:

There is a lot to consider here, but let's get the focus issue sorted first and then move on. Like BF said, we really need to see one of the images to help diagnose the problem. I have one question. Are you getting a sharp image in the viewfinder? One technique you could use to preserve...

I can't imagine the courage the aircrews of WWII, stepping into the aircraft in preparation for a mission, knowing the odds of not coming home. And yet, they still did it. I've watched the footage of the ground crews counting the planes as they landed after a mission.

Surprising little factoid, hummingbirds can begin starving if deprived of food in as little as 3 - 5 hours and can die in as little as 12 hours without food. They go into torpor at night to conserve energy.

I agree with BF that the main problem is blown out highlights. I also looked at the beak of the bird and it doesn't look quite sharp either. It could be AF was locked on something else, or it could be motion blur. No EXIF data to look at and see what the shutter speed was. When shooting white...

I was expecting the ISO 8000 shots to be lacking detail after processing. I was rather surprised at how good they turned out. I see a lot of respected photographers shoot at surprisingly high ISOs when they have to, and still get good results. I know, it's a little off-putting when you bring a...

I would definitely look at something that has an arca swiss compatible plate. That is the standard that is by far the most commonly used, and mounting plates are available everywhere for very reasonable prices. Benro is another company that offers decent quality at a decent price in tripods. The...

Discovered this little guy in the back yard lurking on a mountain mint plant. It almost looks like pupils in the large central eye pair, but it's just the reflection of my flash diffuser and the lens in the middle mimicking a pupil.

I tried various ISOs in preparation for a talk on hummingbirds. I found that after running it through Topaz, or even using the denoise feature in Lightroom, an ISO 8,000 image was just fine. I even printed a 13x19 print to see if the detail would stand that kind of enlargement. It did. I posted...

It's tough to get them while they're "interacting". I have yet to get them in the same plane of focus. What shutter speed did you use for the "doubles"? I've been finding that I can get by with as little as 1/2000 th, if I have a series where some have the wings at the top or bottom of the...

I rarely shot with Tri-X. Plux-X was my go to, or Ilford HP4. I was not a fan of the grainy look that some photographers seemed to like at the time. Even when I was shooting with medium format, I generally preferred the slower films. Despite all the images I took with film, all the money I...

I shot a lot of T-Max after it came out. The only down side was I don't believe I could get it in 100' rolls. It's been a while ago, so maybe I had given up on bulk loading by then, but I don't remember rolling my own with T-Max. I shot a number of rolls with my dad's Rollie 3.5F after he...

With all the different menus and options on the new cameras, it's very easy to overlook a setting that can wreak havoc on your picture taking.

Venomous snakes, large predatory reptiles, and very annoying insects are just part of life here in this part of the country. Around 7,000 to 8,000 people are bitten by venomous snakes in the US each year. Of those, only about 5 - 10 die. Copperheads account for the most bites, but rattlesnakes...

I think that's called "aging".

My Z8 does my taxes for me. Between this year and next it should save me enough to pay for itself.

Does it have a diopter adjustment for the viewfinder?