> One other thing is I find a tripod useless for most macro of
things like
> butterflies. It's hard enough to find them sitting on a flower
within your
> range, but another thing to setup a tripod to catch them before they
take
> off again. If you're in a butterfly house at the zoo, maybe there's
enough
> of them for a tripod, but in the wild, you have to stalk them and
grab them.
Jim
If it's running round a meadow taking record shots then indeed, go for
flash and forget the tripod.
If you want an award-winning pictorial representation, choose your
flower (an appropriate one), set up your tripod and then sit dead
still waiting for the butterfly to land. (which might be some time or
never). But when they do (really) the shot is not spoiled by the
wrong background. Of course, you can still use flash too to really
freeze the fly.
Most straight records have already been done, no?
As to the 180: it is expensive but with the 2x converter it gets me
close enough to most butterflies.
Bob
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