My Bee

[Firemaine]

This guy was sitting on the side of the pool. Don't have a macro lens. I used my 18-55 mm and cropped it.



Camera: Nikon D40
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/9
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0/6 EV
Flash: Flash fired, auto mode
Digital Vari-Program: CLOSE UP

[Lurch]

Lovely clear shot, encouraging to hear it was taken with the kit lens as i have the same one and havn't tried macro with it yet. Beautiful.

[clockdoc]

Very nice shot. Excellent sharpness! Do you recall how far you were from the subject or can you post the original to this thread for comparison? Not sure about the D40 but putting the camera into the "close-up" mode on my D80 only activates the center focusing rectangle. I don't think it does anything optically.

[Firemaine]

Originally Posted by clockdoc

Very nice shot. Excellent sharpness! Do you recall how far you were from the subject or can you post the original to this thread for comparison? Not sure about the D40 but putting the camera into the "close-up" mode on my D80 only activates the center focusing rectangle. I don't think it does anything optically.

As you requested, here is the original. The full size is on Flickr.
I was just as close as I could get when the auto focus would let the shutter operate.

[clockdoc]

Many thanks for posting the full frame comparison. This helps put the cropping in perspective.

[jiminyClickit]

Firemaine,

Very good steady shot, to have Auto focus get the top half of subject. And another testament of Nikon quality. Good eye, guy.