Insects with non macro lenses

aroy

Senior Member
I shot a few insects using the 18-55 VRII and the 50mm F1.8 AF. Though not macro shots, with some cropping you can get quite some detail

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Here is a 100% crop
 
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aroy

Senior Member
Today I waited patiently for the moth and shot with the 50mm F1.8 AF. These are 100% crops. I love the 24MP sensor.

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All these were shot in Manual Focus mode, with flash to freeze the action
 

aroy

Senior Member
Caught this butterfly in my garden

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Full frame

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Cropped to full butterfly

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Cropped - 100%
 
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aroy

Senior Member
Why don't you try it with your 70-300mm?

a) It is extremely soft after 200mm. The 50mm on D3300 gets much better image. Yesterday I shot the moon with 50mm. At 100% it was 100 pixels, but much sharper than the zoom at 300mm.
b) It is a pre afs lense so manual focus on D3300. Yes I will try it out between 100 and 150.

At present I am trying to get best focus from the two primes - 50mm manual and 35mm AF. Believe me most of the time for closer shots the 50mm MF is more accurate than the 35mm AF, which gets confused by a lot of small details and either focuses to the details at the back or to front. Getting it to focus on a stamen bang on is a feat. I am getting better day by day, so till I can repeat the sharp focus, I will keep at it.
 

aroy

Senior Member
Thank you for the suggestions. I thought that the ladybug is so small that it would be lost in the flower. The first shot is a full frame though.
 
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