TNMC

You didn't see them, because they were pretty dull, but I spent a bit of time yesterday trying to take a picture of a slug.  What was interesting is that I stumbled upon something in my camera I didn't realize I had.  Or I sort of knew that it was there but hadn't given any thought to the implications.  The Canon T2i has a way to zoom in on the live view on the camera's LCD.  Now this was mentioned as a feature for video.  On my previous video camera, I ignored the digital zoom because it's essentially useless.  So on this camera I figured this was the same thing and ignored it.

But then I accidentally turned the zoom on while taking stills.  And then a real use for the feature hit me.  It makes focusing on tiny objects much easier.  With the slug, this wasn't all that exciting.  It was only marginally more interesting zoomed in than it was at regular size.  But some things are genuinely much more interesting in the extreme close up.  This beetle for instance.  This shot was take with the kit lens that came with the camera.  But I was still able to get a tight focused close up.  Pretty cool.

Now I'm excited to break out the macro lens again to see what I can do with this.