Nicest things to do is finding a butterfly

[turbo]

I should start budgeting for a decent macro. My wife is turning our front lawn into a jungle of flowering plants, so we get lots of butterflies.

 

[Andre]

Thanks Evo and Lisa, yes trying to estimate their vanity will be in vain.

I hope it will work out Turbo, the 100mm is really at bargains prices nowadays, at least here in the Netherlands.

For Borek, Marzena and other Canon 7D users with a Canon brand macro lens, make sure to select AI Servo for this type of work, for an amazing keeper rate. All my shots were in focus. I wished I had known that earlier.

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[Borek]

make sure to select AI Servo for this type of work

Yep, important part of shooting macro. Not necessarily with 7D, it was already present since at least 400D (but most likely much earlier).

 

[drizzle]

Beautiful Andre :)

 

[NileQueen]

No tropical butterflies here, so we have to deal with whatever we can find in the field and around the house:

Latin names - in file names. Pictures marked with asterisk taken by Marzena. That's not all, but others are not necesarilly worth of showing.

Andre, those are beautiful pictures. Thanks for posting.

Borek, what a variety of different butterflies you've captured! Thanks. The one with the silver arc under his underwing is a Comma, if I am not mistaken.

NQ :-)

 

[Borek]

Borek, what a variety of different butterflies you've captured! Thanks. The one with the silver arc under his underwing is a Comma, if I am not mistaken.

Thanks.

As explained in the post - file names are Latin names of the butterflies. You are right:

is a comma, AKA Polygonia c-album (known here as rusałka ceik - as far as I know c in ceik is related to the c shape on the wing, otherwise no word like ceik in Polish).

 

[Andre]

Thanks NQ, Gad

Yep, important part of shooting macro. Not necessarily with 7D, it was already present since at least 400D (but most likely much earlier).

I believe that it is explained that the doubling of the sampling rate in AI servo is only so for a 7D with a Canon macro lens (hence no sigma or so) and a magnification greater than 33%.