Carolina Gardening: Share your macro (plant) photos, 1 by IRIS

IRIS wrote:
Sorry for the late reponse here, Was ouside most of the afternoon/evening.
The D40 is not really a newer model, It's just that it can take the same quality picture and is pretty much eaqual to the D80 but can be bought at a cheaper price and of course the D200 and the newer D90 are more advanced which is to be expected. When I had gotten mine, I had a choice between the D80 and D200, I didn't know then what I know now or I would have gone with the D200, But, It doesn't really matter to me know as I'm content for now with the D80. It's not really the camera body that matters.. It's what lens you get that matters most anyway.
Do you use auto alot? I never use auto on mine, Always manual, I often feel a need to tweek shots and I can't do that in automatic, Plus manual kinda forces me to learn to use the controls.
As for the Extenstion Tubes, I think you'd love them if you got them, Especially seeing that you like to do a lot of macro photography! I think of them as a cheaper way of getting macro opposed to buying a true macro lens ( Which is extremley expensive) Heres how one company wrote what they are :

"Extension tubes are designed to enable a lens to focus closer than its normal set minimum focusing distance. Getting closer has the effect of magnifying your subject (making it appear larger in the viewfinder and in your pictures). They are exceptionally useful for macro photography, enabling you to convert almost any lens into a macro lens at a fraction of the cost while maintaining its original optical quality.

The DG extension tubes have no optics. They are mounted in between the camera body and lens to create more distance between the lens and film plane. By moving the lens father away from the film or CCD sensor in the camera, the lens is forced to focus much closer than normal. The greater the length of the extension tube, the closer the lens can focus. "

I use mine often and I really enjoy them ... Heres a photo taken today with a 300mm lens, A No. 36 Extention Tube at about 10 ft.away....