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did read the manual. What it does not tell you is that you cannot focus 4-6 inches away unless you use the highest resolutuon. The higher the resolution the closer you can get and the camera will still focus. I understand about the SLR stuff as all I used was a Canon AE1 program before going digital. Ya know f-stops, exposure times amount of light, depth of field and such. Basically non of that stuff in adjustable on this digital. It is not a digital slr although it should be at the price I paid for it. The secret is taking the pic at the highest resolution and then resizing it for e-mails and the web. I did not realize if the pic is taken at high resolution and resized the quality would remain. I thought you would lose it. Hey ya learn something new everyday.

Does it tell you that you must be all the way zoomed out? That holds true for my camera. In macro I can focus 4-6 " away, but I cannot bee zoomed at all.

just a thought.

no it doesn't but I think that may hold true to cameras in general. At least it did for my canon slr. But what it doesn't say is that you need to be at the highest resolution in order for it to focus that close. I was wondering even if the zoom was all the way out why it wouldn't focus closer than about 3 feet. Well when I switched it over to the highest resolution I could then get like 2 inches away and it would still focus. Thanks for the help John. Tom

I wonder why that would be necessary. Probaby so you have to get a bigger memory card for more pictures :O)

Just glad to see you with a camera buddy ;O)

My newest addition...

That is one of two softshell eggs being candled in my hand. The second egg hatched last night.

My neighbors son found the nest so we did what any naturalist would do...promptly dig them up to see what would hatch. I would have swore they were snapping turtle eggs...to my surprise

J

Tom-- I knew a bright young fella like yourself would read the manual!!! Thats the smart thing to do! It's the folks like me & JohnE that worry me!! Where did Brian move to-- he was wanting to go out west----!! I hope he made it to his Promised Land! Az real estate spiraled ( one L or 2 LL's ??)like a space shuttle so I ain't going anytime soon!!
I will always be amazed! 5-10 years ago I knew nothing of chuckers or chucks or nuthing ! Here we are with the internet & forums & mailing lizards & instant pic posting of instant digital pics--------- It is a different world ( in more than 5 ways)that I grew up in. Some for the better-- some for the not so better. And I ain't grew up yet either!!

DVL-- the "chucker formally known as chopper" but now that most of the woods are dozed under around here the chopperheads will be fewer & fewer!! Not so sure about the "guest workers from foreign countries"!

about 2-3 weeks of messing around with it and not being able to figure things out. HEHE. Man you aint kiddin how things change. Tom

Brian did not move far from his old place. He is still in the Chicago area. I think a little west of where he was.

I guess 8.65 miles west is better than nothing at all!@!!!@#$%^()_

So much for being "Ajo Bound" !! --FWIW-- use a "Long" A sound & then use the J=H sound!! LOL

DVL